Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted. On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Daniel Landry wrote:
> -----Message d'origine----- > De: Daniel Landry > Date: 6 juillet 2005 16:34 > A: 'Alexander Gottwald'; 'cygwin-xfree<at>cygwin.com' Also, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > -----Message d'origine----- > > De: Alexander Gottwald > > Date: 6 juillet 2005 14:56 > > > > > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Daniel Landry wrote: > > > > > > > Running setxkbmap with each layouts (ca, fr_CA, ca_enhanced) don't > > > > fix the problem. In all case, the French accents are replaced by > > > > a BEEP and any character is displayed. However, I can make a cut > > > > and paste from WinXP without any problem. > > > > > > ca_enhanced uses deadkeys. > > > ^,` are deadkeys. pressing ^ and A will compose A > > > [snip] > > > > I'm familiar with deadkeys, but they don't work on my Cygwin > > installation. The <e> character is a special key that doesn't request > > any deadkey and it doesn't work either. Using any accented character > > give always the same result: BEEP without any character displayed. > > All other characters seem to work correctly. I give a try to the "fr" > > mapping with the same result. One of my co-workers has also installed > > Cygwin on his computer and he obtained the same results as mine. I > > made an upgrade this morning to be certain that I'm having the last > > Cygwin version. If it can help, my computer is a Dell Latitude C840. > > [snip] > > I have found my problem. I had tried cut and paste functions in Emacs > but try the new keyboard mapping in Xterm. In fact, "ca_enhanced" > keyboard was working in some application, but not on others. Emacs, > vim, nano see well the new mapping. Xterm and some other applications > like python interpreter environment don't see it, but I can't make any > cut and paste with accented character either. I'll see case by case for > the configuration of these applications but it is no more a > keyboard-mapping problem. > [snip] Ah. I'm going to venture a guess and say that it's not simply an xterm, but an xterm running bash[*] that doesn't work, and direct you to <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC48>. HTH, Igor [*] bash uses readline, and, most likely, so does the python interpreter environment (top-level?). -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT