Cannot get AllChars to work with mintty

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I am using AllChars and mintty 1.0.1 with MSYS 32-bit on Vista 64-bit. I use 
Right-Alt as my  compose key and it does not appear to work. I am trying very 
simple compose sequences such as "<" + "<" which should give "«" or "e" + "^" 
which should give "ê". The sequence is entirely discarded (ie. I don't get 
"<<" or "e^" either).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sam@hocevar.net on 18 Oct 2011 at 7:27

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I think that's a configuration issue with MSYS's bash/readline. By default, it 
treats character with the high bit set as Meta combinations.

Stick this into ~/.inputrc to make non-ASCII characters work:

set input-meta on
set output-meta on
set convert-meta off

Remove any 'meta-flag' setting, as that's just a synonym for 'input-meta'.

However, for proper internationalisation support, I'd really recommend using 
latest Cygwin instead of MSYS. This has a functioning POSIX locale 
implementation and defaults to UTF-8, whereas MSYS uses the rather limited 
Windows ANSI codepage. Cygwin also has MinGW cross toolchains.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 19 Oct 2011 at 5:33

• Changed title: Cannot get AllChars to work with mintty
• Changed state: Undecided

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I hope that addressed the issue.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 4 Nov 2011 at 10:55

• Changed state: Closed