From: jbshaldane@... (haldane)
Date: 2003-08-29T16:37:39+09:00
Subject: readline.dll problem

I am using U.Nakamura's mswin32 Ruby 1.8.0.  When I installed it and
tried to use irb, I got an error "readline.dll not found".  (Irb works
fine once you ok the message.)  Chris Morris has previously noted this
in this list (ruby-talk#76180,
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/76180),
and was kind enough to email me the required dll.

However, although the error message goes away once the dll is
installed, I am now unable to write certain characters from my
Swedish/Finnish keyboard.  Any characters accessed using Alt Gr do not
work. These include $,{,[,] and }, so it becomes rather difficult to
write any useful ruby!

I get the same issue with the readline.dll provided with ActiveScript
Ruby.

Does anyone know anything about this problem - what is readline.dll
used for and is there any way to pass configuration to it to accept
the kind of keyboard I have?

Thanks

Stephen.
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