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Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:36:25 -0500
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Subject:	Re: xterm losing accent keys
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Hans-Georg Scherneck wrote:
> When I press ` ^ ¨ or ~ and then space keys in xterm, it ignores the 
> accents and puts a simple space.  The same with composition of accented 
> characters like é. What worse is: this behaviour can change back to 
> normal and back to improper, and I have no clue as to upon exactly what? 
> Seems that sometimes just a change of focus to another window (xemacs) 
> is sufficient, and the accent keys get deprived of function.
> 
> It's a really dangerous problem. Imagine: I'd launch   rm -f *    
> (instead of  rm -f *~)    and pop would go the weasel. Anyway it's darn 
> annoying.
> 
> The question is: How can I force proper handling of accent keys? 
> Preferably a method more elegant than a reboot.

If this problem occurs for xterm and not in the shell as started by
cygwin.bat, then it's an X issue and should be directed to the
cygwin-xfree list if available xterm documentation doesn't provide
a working solution (i.e. if there is a Cygwin-specific issue with enabling
the right behavior here).  If it is reproducible in the shell started
by cygwin.bat, then perhaps this FAQ will help:

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.unicode>

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