Hi David, Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, toggling the input method does not make a difference in an xterm window. (It does, by the way, have the effect you mention in a Cygwin64 terminal window.) --- Matt
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 7:21 PM, David Billinghurst <dbcyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2018-06-05 10:47, Matt Nicholas wrote: > > I recently obtained a Dell Precision laptop running Windows 10. >> I installed 64-bit Cygwin, including various packages that are not part of >> the minimal install. >> > > The problem I'm having is that when I type single quote or double quote >> characters in the xterm window, no character appears with the first >> keystroke. >> > This may be an issue with the input method configured for the keyboard. > You can toggle this with <Windows Key>+<space>. Many Dell machines are > configured to use the US-international keyboard that encodes "<char> to an > umlaut, so "e to ë and so on. As a monlingual Aussie I find the plain "US > Keyboard" has fewer surprises. > -- 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
