Re: AltGr key combination recognition - resolved

[Michael Rasmussen <michael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

My locale, somehow, was set to C.
Resetting to en_US.UTF8 resolved the issue.


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 04:57:08PM -0800, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:34:24PM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:00:17 -0800
> > Michael Rasmussen <michael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:45:22PM +0100, René 'Necoro' Neumann wrote:
> > > > Am 16.12.2013 22:11, schrieb Michael Rasmussen:
> > > > > My freshly installed zsh[1] does not accept AltGr character input. 
> > > Switching to bash allows the combinations to work.
> > 
> > One possibility is that you might have "bindkey -m" in effect, which
> > swallows up bytes with the top bit set (that now outputs a warning,
> > however, unless your initialisation is explicitly suppressing that).
> > Try starting a vanilla zsh with "zsh -f" and using "bindkey -e" (you
> > can't undo the effect of "bindkey -m" within a shell without explicitly
> > unbinding the sequences).
> 
> The "zsh -f" and "bindkey -e" did not resolve.
> 
> Went beyond just those steps and removed all /etc/zsh and personal ~/.zsh*
> The issue stays with me. 
> 
> My work around for now is `exec bash` and doing what needs doing.
> 
> 
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