Re: entering special symbols in mintty

2011-03-02 Thread Andy Koppe
On 2 March 2011 20:27, Jim Garrison wrote: > Mintty seems to be interpreting Alt+ codes in OCTAL instead of decimal, > based on the Unicode code point and not the Windows Alt+ codes.  For > example, Windows' Character Map applet shows the "Euro" symbol as Unicode > character U+20AC and A

RE: entering special symbols in mintty

2011-03-02 Thread Jim Garrison
As to your specific request for the copyright symbol, try entering Alt+169 (no leading zero). This should result in the copyright symbol, since its Unicode code-point is 0xA9 or 169 decimal.

RE: entering special symbols in mintty

2011-03-02 Thread Jim Garrison
Mintty seems to be interpreting Alt+ codes in OCTAL instead of decimal, based on the Unicode code point and not the Windows Alt+ 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 discer

entering special symbols in mintty

2011-03-02 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
If I use the default Cygwin.bat file, I can enter special characters with the Alt key, but this doesn't work in mintty, unless there's some option I've overlooked. For example, to enter the copyright symbol (©) in a standard Windows application, including Command Prompt, I can hold down the Alt