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Re: Problems with accented characters in Cygwin
- From: Frédéric L. W. Meunier <0 at pervalidus dot tk>
- To: Lukasz Kosewski <stranded_dieu at yahoo dot ca>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 02:56:31 -0300 (E. South America Standard Time)
- Subject: Re: Problems with accented characters in Cygwin
- References: <20030910221046.47701.qmail@web40312.mail.yahoo.com>
I suggest you use rxvt since the Cygwin "terminal" appers to be
broken for that. I don't know if it ever worked, but it never
did since I started with 1.3.10. I now use 1.5.3. I reported
it. See
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00048.html
and follow
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02230.html
, mainly Igor's replies:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02301.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02324.html
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Lukasz Kosewski wrote:
> The characters DISPLAY fine, when I am doing ls on a folder
> with accents and umlauts, everything displays fine. With tab
> completion, I can complete the accented names. But I cannot
> TYPE them. No matter what key combinations I try, I cannot
> find any way to TYPE the special characters at the prompt.
> I cannot paste characters from notepad/mozilla into the
> window either, nothing happens when I try.
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