Subj : oxp: jumps to cyrillic
To   : All
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Jul 13 2020 01:10:00

Hello!

The following occurred once before, but I wrote it off as an oddity that I  
triggered (somehow)  ..and would not repeat.  But it *has* repeated.  And  
I am wondering what the trigger might be.

When I drop to DOS shell via F9, the console switches to cyrillic!

The prompt looks normal, but subsequent keyboard entries are cyrillic.

A cut'n'paste of what I saw doesn't work here since this session is CP437,  
so instead I've captured a screen shot of the result here:

  http://pics.rsh.ru/img/oxpcyrillic_guogdnj3.jpg


And, when that happens, there is no way to safely exit the shell. :(

If I was in the middle of writing a message (which I was this 2nd time),  
and shell to DOS, I lose the message I was working on since I have to kill  
OXP.

Is there an history of this phenomenon that gives a clue as to why the  
cyrillic codepage gets triggered?

Is there is DOS trick to exit a sub shell invoked by F9?


  ../|ug

--- OpenXP 5.0.45
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