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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

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