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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:48:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel DOT Burbaickij AT gmx DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Passing through the keyboard layout settings from Win32 to cygwin
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On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:

> Hello dear mailing list participants,
>
> this is basically re-post of my e-mail
> send a while ago. Noone answered the original
> question, so let us see how lucky I am this this
> time.
>
> is it somehow possible to pass through the actual
> keyboard layout settings of host machine to cygwin console?
> Here the explanation: Occasionally I need to type
> in German or Russian or some other languages, so
> I simply switch the kyeboard layout in Win2000. Is some hook
> defined or can be defined that adjusts also the
> locale settings of cygwin as soon as it happens?
>
> With Best Regards
> Ariel Burbaickij

Ariel,

There's no code in Cygwin that dynamically detects a switch in keyboard
settings.  Cygwin does inherit the keyboard settings from Windows, but
doesn't process them in any way.  I can think of a few ways to do what you
want, but all of them involve some amount of coding, and none of them do
this dynamically.  The simplest idea is to write a small program (e.g.,
"compute_locale") that queries the keyboard state and outputs the correct
locale settings, and then "eval" its output from your shell's rc file.
That way, whenever you start a new shell, it, and any programs invoked by
it, will have the correct locale settings for the current keyboard mode.

If you find a way (on MSDN?) to add a hook to the Windows keyboard layout
switch utility, have that hook send a special unused signal to (all?)
Cygwin programs, and add code to cygwin1.dll to set the locale correctly
when handling that signal.  You can probably reuse the locale computation
code from "compute_locale" above.

HTH,
	Igor
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