On Jun 29 21:29, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 29 June 2010 16:01, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: > > I had to setup an cygwin environment for a colleague which uses a laptop > > with Portuguese Keyboard under a English version of Windows and sometimes > > he also has to use german. > > Under windows the language bar makes it easy to switch between the keyboard > > layouts. > > I try to find out how to propagate this to Cygwin. > > > > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html > > > > mentioned that it is sufficient to set the LANG environment variable to the > > appropriate value. To do so I have to figure out the actual settings of the > > language bar. > > Has someone an idea how to solve this ? > > Both in the Cygwin console and in mintty, you switch keyboard layout > as in any other Windows application, using the language bar. Please > note that the language bar setting is application-specific, i.e. > different applications can use different layouts, as you'll see when > switching between applications. > > The LANG and LC_* settings do not have an effect on the keyboard layout.
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