Re: pipe char for UK keyboards on Win98SE

[Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda at jaist dot ac dot jp>]

>>> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:44:07 +0100
>>> Dr Simon Jones <s.b.jones@cs.stir.ac.uk> said:

> >> I have discovered a workaround, which is "<AltGr>`", that's the backquote
> >> key, which also features a pipe symbol on the lower right. 
> >> 
> >> Does this work for others with this problem?
> >
> >Yes it does fix it for me (running cygwin 1.1.4 on Win98SE too).
> 
> This problem was annoying me too. I found that the pipe char was not
> working *in a straight DOS prompt window either* - so I guessed that it was
> *not* a Cygwin problem. 
>
> I changed the cp set-up in autoexec.bat on my Win98 PC from 850 to 437 and
> all is fine (pipe char works, and no other problem noticed).  
> 
> According to a list I saw, codepages 437 and 850 are alternatives, but
> obviously not quite... 

The codepage 850 is for West European locales. It seems only
natural to me that you have to follow the manner of West
European keyboards.

Anyway, the console device of Cygwin DLL 1.1.4 (or later)
mutually translates characters between the default OEM and ANSI
codepages. It can't work properly other codepages than the
default. So I can't recommend changing codepages for the Cygwin
console.
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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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