irb and german keyboard problem

[Lothar Scholz]

Hello ruby-talk,

can someone tell me what i must do that irb accepts german Alt-Gr
keys on WinXP. I can't type [] {}

 

[nobu.nokada]

Hi,

At Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:13:02 +0900,
Lothar Scholz wrote in [ruby-talk:121356]:

can someone tell me what i must do that irb accepts german Alt-Gr
keys on WinXP. I can't type [] {}

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bi...submit=Search&dbname=ruby-talk&max=1&whence=0

 

[gabriele renzi]

Lothar Scholz ha scritto:

Hello ruby-talk,

can someone tell me what i must do that irb accepts german Alt-Gr
keys on WinXP. I can't type [] {}

it should work with this:
http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/dist/Input.euro

Anyway, I'm not sure if it does for german. For an italian keyboard some
stuf works, some don't.

 

[Henrik Horneber]

can someone tell me what i must do that irb accepts german Alt-Gr
keys on WinXP. I can't type [] {}

I also have a question related to german keyboards_ Why does irb
terminate without any further message when I include some german
umlauts (öäüÖÄÜß) which are _not_ in quotes?

e/www/plenz,0% irb

=> "\344"

[terminates]

Julius

Same problem here on Win2K, even though I haven't noticed it before
(thanks Julius). Maybe one should just use english identifiers? (not an
extremely bad idea anyway IMHO). Just to clarify things, I have readline
more or less working except for the occasional segfault, and I can type
[] etc with Alt+Gr just fine. Irb does not terminate immediately after
entering an Umlaut, only after pressing return.

D:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\empinator.HAMMING>irb
irb(main):001:0> a
NameError: undefined local variable or method `a' for main:Object
from (irb):1
irb(main):002:0> "ä"
=> "\204"
irb(main):003:0> ä

D:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\empinator.HAMMING>

best regards,
Henrik

 

[gabriele renzi]

Henrik Horneber ha scritto:

....
Same problem here on Win2K, even though I haven't noticed it before

....

same is valid with the italian's accented letters..
C:\Documents and Settings\gabriele>irb
irb(main):001:0> è
C:\Documents and Settings\gabriele>

There was some talk about this some time ago, maybe looking in the
archive will find answer (wich I can't remember :/ )

 

[Adeodato Simó]

* Julius Plenz [Thursday, November 25, 2004 22:59] {comp.lang.ruby}:

I also have a question related to german keyboards_ Why does irb
terminate without any further message when I include some german
umlauts (öäüÖÄÜß) which are _not_ in quotes?

I couldn't reproduce (*), and then I realized I have RUBYOPT=-Ku.
unsetting RUBYOPT made irb behave as you describe.

(*) the output being:
NameError: undefined local variable or method `ä' for main:Object
from (irb):1

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