Remapped keys don't work like in other applications

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I used http://www.klm32.com/ lite in Windows 7 to define a new key
association for my italian keyboard, I added the association control-\ =
"`". The new association works in other applications like cmd, firefox, but
nothing appears on mintty, although mintty appears to follow the selected
input language. I am using the stable mintty as of February 2010. I have
tried a number of alternatives: it looks like they work in typical
applications but not for mintty.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alusi...@gmail.com on 2 Mar 2010 at 1:37

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The console2 application, http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/, behaves 
exactly
like mintty.

Original comment by alusi...@gmail.com on 2 Mar 2010 at 1:48

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Ctrl combinations are indeed handled without regard to the Windows keyboard 
layout, 
because they're needed for terminal control characters. In this particular 
case, Ctrl+\ 
maps to ^\ (ASCII 0x1C).

More generally in Windows, Ctrl combinations are reserved for shortcuts, so 
there might 
well be other programs apart from mintty and Console that ignore your mapping. 
AltGr is 
the modifier intended for adding new characters to a layout, so you might want 
to move 
'`' to AltGr+\.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 3 Mar 2010 at 5:25

• Changed title: Remapped keys don't work like in other applications
• Changed state: Rejected

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Thanks for the reply and the hint. I have used the Microsoft keyboard layout 
editor
to create a revised keyboard layout that defines additional AltGr+\ and AltGr+|
combinations for the italian keyboard and I confirm that the new definitions do 
work
for mintty as well as for other applications.

Original comment by alusi...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2010 at 3:50