Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:56:41 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Jason Tiller To: Subject: Re: cygwin 1.3.2 bug on non-us keyboard layouts Message-ID: X-X-Sender: jdtiller AT shell3 DOT ba DOT best DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, Serge, and All, :) On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Serge Koganovitsch wrote: > I've recently upgraded from 1.1.8 to 1.3.2 and now I cannot use > characters like '\' or '|'. AltGr apparently is not recognized on my > laptop (AZERTY belgian layout). Non-US keyboard layout in general > don't work. Does anyone have a solution for this problem ? You are not the first to have come across this! I implemented (with much help from Corinna) a patch that was first applied in 1.3.1 to modify the behavior of AltGr (Alt key right of the spacebar on 102-key keyboards (US, at least)). I wanted AltGr to act as META, since I was using emacs editing keys in bash and really liked using either Alt key as META. Since US users have no use for AltGr, really, we worked the code to treat AltGr as META only if the console keyboard's primary language identifier was English (LANG_ENGLISH). Immediately after the patch was applied, non-US users began submitting bug reports. I recently took a look at this and wondered about some of the code to determine the user's keyboard language. That code only looks at the primary language identifier of the keyboard language. HOWEVER, Win32 allows the user to specify a language and a physical layout. Are you using English as the primary language? If so, then this might be the culprit because you indicate your layout is Belgian. If you're using emacs keybindings in bash, then you can test whether or not AltGr is META - just type something and hit -b: if the cursor goes back to the previous word, then AltGr is being interpreted as META. I have a feeling that the code in question needs to check the layout as well as the language and only translate AltGr into META if BOTH are English/US. I'm still using 1.1.8 myself, and I don't have access to any non-US layout keyboards, so I can't do a lot of testing, but the patch for this is trivial. ---Jason Sonos -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple