On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 14:30:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Under cygwin 2.7.0 this works fine for me in tcsh, bash 4.4.11-2, bash
> 4.4.12-3 and od, including Alt +f6.  That is, as long as I'm in the
> Windows console.  Mintty only supports Alt +f6 or Alt 246 when in
> Unicode mode.

With a clean environment you are going to have this:

    $ chcp.com
    Active code page: 437

Which will allow Alt 148 to work as expected:

    ö

However once you change the code page:

    $ chcp.com 65001
    Active code page: 65001

Alt codes and pasting stop working for certain characters.


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