On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 23:33:48, Thomas Wolff wrote: > In a UTF-8 locale, e.g., Alt+2-1-6 should result in the Unicode > character with decimal code 216
No, it shouldnt. It should result in U+256A. http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 Please advise where you are getting your information? Also even if the wrong code page is being used, new version of readline still broke pasting, which will still need to be fixed regardless of any Alt code situation. -- 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