This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Altgr+space doesn't print the expected character when using bash and bÃpo keyboard layout
On 24 June 2011 09:56, menfin wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote:
>>
>> I didn't install bepo but I think I see what happens. At one point we
>> found that Cygwin didn't allow to generate ASCII NUL, which is usually
>> mapped to Ctrl+Space. The expression which special-cases this key
>> sequence just checked if the Ctrl key is pressed, but didn't check if
>> one of the Alt keys is pressed.
>
> However, I still doubt about your hypothesis : how do you explain the paste
> problem I described ?
I'd suspect the Windows console translates pasted strings into
equivalent keypresses, using the current keyboard layout.
Btw, you might also want to give mintty a try, where AltGr+Space
should work as expected already.
Andy
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple