On 2 March 2011 20:27, Jim Garrison wrote: > Mintty seems to be interpreting Alt+nnnn codes in OCTAL instead of decimal, > based on the Unicode code point and not the Windows Alt+nnnn codes. For > example, Windows' Character Map applet shows the "Euro" symbol as Unicode > character U+20AC and Alt+0128. Entering Alt+0128 in mintty has no > discernible effect, but if you convert hex 20AC to octal and enter that (with > a leading zero to indicate that it's octal, Alt+020254) you DO get a Euro > symbol. > > It also appears that without the leading zero the number is interpreted as > decimal, again selecting the Unicode code-point.
Correct, and as documented in the manual: http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0.9.6/docs/mintty.1.html#19 Andy -- 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
