readline on WinXP

[Kay-Uwe]

Hi,

When starting an interactive session on my machine (cmd.exe under
WinXP SP3) the special keys, like [], {} | etc. are not working. I
have a Swiss keyboard mapping and other command-line programs work
fine.
When I start pure --noediting everything works, so I suspect the
readline utility is causing the problem.

Best regards,
Kay-Uwe

[Albert Graef]

Kay-Uwe wrote:
> When I start pure --noediting everything works, so I suspect the
> readline utility is causing the problem.

Yes, it's a bug in readline, it doesn't recognize the AltGr combinations
on international keyboards. I can't find a workaround or version of
readline that fixes the problem, maybe someone else here knows more?

Albert

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[Albert Graef]

Albert Graef wrote:
> Yes, it's a bug in readline, it doesn't recognize the AltGr combinations
> on international keyboards.

(Windows-only problem, of course. This works fine on Linux.)