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Subject: National characters in the command window
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:53:58 +0100
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I have a Norwegian keyboard, and when I type the national characters on the 
command
line, nothing shows up - that is, the æ (the ae ligature) and å (a with ring 
above) keys do not
respond, while the ø (o with slash across) key produces 'o'.  Dead-accent 
key combinations
produce nothing.  The cursor does not advance.

I have a file with the ae ligature in the file name. The command "ls | od -t 
x1" shows that
character as 0xe6, consistent with latin1 or with cp1252. "ls" to the screen 
displays the
file name properly. It seems the problem only affects keyboard input.

In a regular "dos" cmd window I can type file names with national 
characters, and list the file
names.

The environment vairables LANG and LC_* are not set. I have not found any 
setting of these
that make a difference.

The command

    chcp.com

in the bash window returns 437.  In 436, the ae ligature is 0x91.

In a regular dos cmd window, "dir > dirfile" produces a file that contains 
cp437 coded file names.
The ae ligature is 0x91. I determine this by "od < dirfile" in the bash 
window.

Using chcp to set codepage 1252 in the bash window makes the ae ligature 
display as the greek
mu character when doing "ls" to the screen.  "ls | od" still shows 0xe6 
(1252) for the ae ligature.
On input, the o-slash key nno longer produces 'o'. It produces nothing. The 
cursor does not
advance.  Starting a new bash process in the same window does not seem to 
change anything.

I have found so little about this on the net, that I believe I must be 
missing something very
basic in my cygwin installation. Does everybody else have the same problem?

Is there a good description anywhere of how these things work?

Thanks 



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