Re: win32 readline - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: win32 readline
Date
Msg-id 200407202303.i6KN3VY15966@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: win32 readline  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Readline is pretty badly broken under mingw. Basically, it disables
> > the alt-gr key, which renders psql almost useless on most locales (no
> > way to type backslash, and a whole lot of other characters, for
> > example).
>
> I can't reproduce that.  It works perfectly fine here.

Peter, I have received multiple reports that psql readline doesn't work
on MinGW.  Can you get together with Magnus and others to find out why
you aren't seeing the failure and they are.  What code page are you
using for testing?

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