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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:50:27 +0200
From: Marius Gedminas <marius DOT gedminas AT uosis DOT mif DOT vu DOT lt>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: console app on German Win9* - '^' character, etc
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In-Reply-To: <BF35D9C143BCCC4EB63181B67C9320C804DD5C@serv-075.icon-germany.local>; from heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:03:09PM +0100
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:03:09PM +0100, Heribert Dahms wrote:
> you know that, on a german keyboard, you need
> to type a space after a deadkey like ^ or ~ or ` ?
> However I can only speak for NT,
> I could avoid W9x/W2k so far...

Win2K is fine, but Win9x has problems with dead keys and console mode
applications.  This problem is not specific to CygWin.

IIRC, when you press a dead key, the console gets a NUL character with the
proper scan code.  It is possible to implement a workaround by watching
such key codes and manually supplying the appropriate ASCII codes.  I
think FAR manager (a nice Win32 console mode file manager) does that.

Other than that, you would have to install English keyboard layout and
switch to it to enter dead keys.

Marius Gedminas
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