Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:18:55 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: bash 2.03 / german umlauts
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[It's better not to take this thread off the news group.  I think it will 
interest others.  Also, I'm not the person who ported Bash, so at least 
one other person needs to participate in this discussion.]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Soenke Ufen wrote:

> I use a keyboard with a german layout. I just type the keys sz, ue="u,  
> oe="o, ae="a without any use of Alt, AltGr or Ctrl (which is called Strg  
> here):

I see.  Then I think I know what happens.  The national keyboard support 
works on the DOS level (it installs a TSR which hooks the DOS interrupt 
and watches functions which read from the keyboard).  In contrast, Bash 
uses the termios functions which in their DJGPP implementation read the 
keyboard through BIOS.  Since the DJGPP implementation of termios 
doesn't know about national keyboards, it simply doesn't know about 
those special keys.

What happens if you use the Alt-nn method of generating non-ASCII 
German characters?  Do you see the same effect, or something different?