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Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 09:48:16 -0400
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Subject: Re: Alt+numpad keys doesn't work in ssh sessions
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On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
> Hello
>
> I use Cygwin from cmd.exe, because I use BRLTTY, and that doesn't work
> in Minty. Inside Cygwin, I can type alt+066, and I get B as expected. If
> I do the same after connecting to another host through ssh, nothing
> happens. Is this a bug? I need the feature to type non native
> characters such as quotation marks.

On the remote host try setting the TERM variable to match what you
have set locally.  YMMV but I've seen this clear up some issues.

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