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Trivial question (maybe): how to use swedish keyboard with bash
- To: erny at mail dot algonet dot se
- Subject: Trivial question (maybe): how to use swedish keyboard with bash
- From: Tage Westlund <tage dot westlund at stockholm dot mail dot telia dot com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:13:09 +0000
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: G-LOGIKMETODER
- Reply-To: tage dot westlund at stockholm dot mail dot telia dot com
Erik Nyquist wrote:
>
> I thought it would be nice to have a real shell instead of command.com
> (I am running Windows-95), so I tried bash. The only problem with
> that is my swedish keyboard. I want to be able to use the AltGr-key
> to get characters like $£\|.
To Erik!
I think this problem is general for most non english speaking countries.
It is now long ago that gnuwin32-b18 was launched. Immediately your
problem was reported in several messages to this list. Soon a patch
was offered by Sergey Okapkin.
Geoffrey Noer has promised not to forget to include this patch in the
soon coming gnuwin32-b19. Please note the remaining shortcomings
mentioned below!
I got rid of the problem (most of it) doing the following:
>From
ftp://niteroi.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/win32/X11R6.3/X11R6.3/b18-patch
I imported the two files cygwin.dll and libcygwin.a
To two locations I copied cygwin.dll instead of the old files:
/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/cygwin.dll
/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/i-386-cygwin32/lib/cygwin.dll
To one location I copied libcygwin.a instead of the old file:
/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/i-386-cygwin32/lib/libcygwin.a
I then restarted the computer and found that it was possible to
use the shift key Alt Gr to type @${[]}\| being in bash.
BUT IT WAS STILL NOT POSSIBLE TO TYPE "`", i.e. backward apo-
strophe and "~", i.e. tilde.
If one has to type those characters, type a script.txt instead
and execute bash$ bash script.txt as a "batch file".
Best Regards!
Tage
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