On Mar 30 12:53, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > On 30.03.2010 11:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Hi Thomas, > For some reason this mail didn't make it into my cygwin mailbox, so > it's good you sent me a personal CC.
Weird. You should really check your mail chain. I never had a problem to receive mail from the list, execpt my own server(s) choked. > >Since you were looking into the Cygwin console code lately, maybe you > >could find out why `stty sane' doesn't reset the character set? > stty sane isn't supposed to do anything "sane" to the terminal, I > think, just to the tty device. > The tool to use would be 'reset'. So I'll try to find out why > 'reset' doesn't reset the character set :-\ . Uh, ok. Right reset doesn't work either. > >A couple of minutes ago I printed the bytes from an ISO image unfiltered > >to the console. Afterwards, the console was using the alternate > >charset. > There are two methods to switch to the alternate character set. One > is by just sending a Control-N. Most terminals "guard" this method > by requiring an enable sequence before this works. I guess this > would considerably reduce the risk that this happens, that's > probably why they do it. > I didn't implement the guarding mechanism in fhandler_console > (although I prepared it somewhat) so I think I should fully > implement that. > Also I tuned mined to send the corresponding disable sequence on > exit which it didn't, probably (and weird enough) because terminfo > maintains the enable capability but no disable capability... > > >`stty sane' does not switch back to the default charset for some reason. > See above; I don't think it's supposed to do that. I try to keep in mind :-} > >If you have a bit of spare time, do you think you would like to have a look? > Is it sufficient to complete this in 2 weeks (after Easter time)? Sure! It's not actually a pressing issue. This request to look into this problem is based on pure slackness on my side. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
