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Subject: Re: Interference with Windows keyboard language
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On Jun 29 21:29, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 29 June 2010 16:01, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote:
> > I had to setup an cygwin environment for a colleague which uses a laptop with Portuguese Keyboard under a English version of Windows and sometimes he also has to use german.
> > Under windows the language bar makes it easy to switch between the keyboard layouts.
> > I try to find out how to propagate this to Cygwin.
> >
> > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html
> >
> > mentioned that it is sufficient to set the LANG environment variable to the appropriate value. To do so I have to figure out the actual settings of the language bar.
> > Has someone an idea how to solve this ?
> 
> Both in the Cygwin console and in mintty, you switch keyboard layout
> as in any other Windows application, using the language bar. Please
> note that the language bar setting is application-specific, i.e.
> different applications can use different layouts, as you'll see when
> switching between applications.
> 
> The LANG and LC_* settings do not have an effect on the keyboard layout.

Oops, looks like I misinterpreted the issue.


Corinna

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