Re: Mississippi -> Miiippi

["Dai Itasaka" <ditasaka at silverbacksystems dot com>]

I'm using Windows XP Professional. The "Regional and Language Options"
in the ControlPanel says:

  Regional Options tab:
    Standards and formats: English(United States)
    Location: United States
  Language tab:
    Text Services and Input Languages: Japanese - MS Natural Input 2002 v8.1
  Advanced tab:
    Language for non-Unicode programs: Japanese

I cannot live without doing that setxkbmap because otherwise I will be
in a bigger sh^H^H hole where the at mark becomes the double quotation,
the double quotation becomes the star, the star becomes the left parenthesis,
the left parenthesis becomes right....crazy.


) What language is Windows using by default?
)
) You have, or course, tried this same demo (very carefully, I might add)
) to make sure that the same problem happens when you don't use setxkbmap?
)
) Harold
)
) Dai Itasaka wrote:
)
) > I did:
) >
) >  setxkbmap -rules xfree86 -model pc104 -layout us -option ""
) >
) > XWin was invoked without any option in startxwin.sh. (XWin &)
) >
) > The keyboard is a normal US keyboard. (101? It's from Dell)
) >
) >
) > ) Are you installing your own keymap?
) > )
) > ) Are you using an XF86Config file?
) > )
) > ) What keyboard layout is Windows configured for?
) > )
) > ) Harold
) > )
) > ) Dai Itasaka wrote:
) > )
) > ) > Hello list,
) > ) >
) > ) > Here is what I did:
) > ) >
) > ) > - Opened several tcsh windows (as separate MS Window apps)
) > ) > - Started X by invoking "startxwin.sh" which gave me one big root window
) > ) >   and one xterm window
) > ) > - In this xterm window, I did:
) > ) >     > xhost 10.0.1.2
) > ) >     > ssh myname@10.0.1.2
) > ) >     (now I'm logged in)
) > ) >     > setenv DISPLAY 10.0.1.1:0
) > ) >     (10.0.1.1 is the Windows PC with cygwin running, 10.0.1.2 is a Linux
) > box)
) > ) >     > twm &
) > ) >     (now the desktop is managed by twm)
) > ) > - Opened a few more xterm windows from twm and already opened xterm
) > ) > - Went back to one of the tcsh window and did:
) > ) >     > setenv DISPLAY localhost:0
) > ) >     > xterm
) > ) >
) > ) > This opened up one xterm window in the X desktop with "bash-2.05b"
prompt.
) > ) > In this xterm window, I couldn't type the letter 's'. Not only I
couldn't
) > ) > type, but I was unable to yank and copy a string with 's'. For example,
) > ) > I yanked a string "tcsh" in another xterm window and pasted it in this
) > ) > troubled xterm window, it displayed "tch". For another example, I yanked
) > ) > the word "Mississippi" from /usr/share/dict/words and pasted it and got
) > ) > "Miiippi". I had no such problem in any other xterm windows but this.
) > ) >
) > ) > What was happening?
) > ) >
) > ) >
) > ) >>uname -a
) > ) >
) > ) > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 myname 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown
unknown
) > ) > Cygwin
) > ) >
) > ) >
) > ) >