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: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:23:16 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Jason Tiller To: Subject: Re: German Win98, US Win95 keyboard --> no ;'` keys in Bash In-Reply-To: <20010921005843.C9385@gintaras> 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, Marius! :) Good to hear from you! On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:14:49PM -0700, Jason Tiller wrote: > > > How many failing bug reports have we had? > > Two or three. > Could you provide message-ids, or maybe even links to them on the > archive? If that's not too much hassle for you. Here they are: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-09/msg00857.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-09/msg01181.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-09/msg01241.html > I'm still alive, and I was actually following this thread. And the > threat of changing the right Alt into AltGr unconditionally might > even make me forget my usual lazyness (hey, Larry Wall said it was > one of the great virtues of programming!) and do something. Hey, lazy = do it once and then forget about it. I'm all for that! > However my "enhanced META-translator" is only used on Windows > NT/2000, so it shouldn't have broken anything in this specific case > (Win98 + US keyboard). Ah. I knew that Win(9[58]|ME) didn't have all of the facilities that NT did and I recall that you had a separate method for Win9x. I hadn't yet looked at the code to see that you only changed the algorithm for NT/2K. Hmm. Well, the problem is that I don't believe it worked for Win9x in the first place! At least, not for those with English language but international layout keyboards. > And if I understood the original problem report correctly (not > working ' ` ; with US keyboard layout), it has nothing to do with > AltGr at all. The first report I see (in msg00857) is from an Italian user. The second report (msg01181) is from a UK user who doesn't explicitly state what his keyboard settings are. The third report (Hans-Bernhard's, msg01241) is the most confusing - a US keyboard layout with a German OS. > I think the only constructive thing I can suggest at the moment, is > to compile and run the attached program -- it displays raw console > keyboard events Cygwin (and any other Win32 application) gets from > the operating system. This is very handy. Thanks! That will at least give the people who are having problems a chance to delve into what's going on for them. I hope we can get reports that would point in a direction to fix this once and for all. Thank you, Marius!! ---Jason jtiller AT sjm DOT com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/