On Nov 10 17:47, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Corinna Vinschen schrieb: > I had not expected you to take action on this issue so soon: > >- Don't create ESC sequences for ALT-key keypresses if key translates > > into a multibyte sequence. This avoids stray bytes in input when > > pressing for instance ALT-ö (Umlaut-o) under UTF-8.
I applied the change already an hour before your mail from yesterday. It makes a lot of sense to subscribe to the cygwin-cvs mailing list, since you see immediately what has happened in the repository. > - especially given: > >... And, whatever > >super-duper change we make to this essential console code in future, > >let's wait until after 1.7.1, please. Well, it wasn't exactly a super-duper change, rather something I thought of as a bugfix. > Actually, I think this is the wrong change. I'm sorry I came up with > this confusion because I didn't test sufficiently, but as I said in > my second mail > >For non-ASCII it works fine, > and contemplating again > >If you press Alt-ö, the console generates the sequence ESC 0xc3 0xb6. > I think this is absolutely the right thing to generate - after all, > what else should be expected here? > The "stray bytes" are created in bash/readline, the previous > behavior of cygwin console in this case was perfect, I'd suggest to > revert, please. I was just going to refuse your request, when I had this really spooky idea of actually *testing* this in an xterm running under Linux. And, what shall I say? Xterm creates the same ESC 0xc3 0xb6 sequence when pressing Alt-ö. I'll revert the change. Note to self: "Testing doesn't hurt". Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
