Escape character does not work

Bug #41145 reported by Tero Karvinen
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netkit-telnet (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
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Bug Description

1) Use normal Finnish keyboard (fi-latin1 pc105), most likely many non-US keyboards reproduce this bug
2
) $ telnet www.example.com 80
Trying 193.166.9.1... Connected to www.example.com
Escape character is '^]'.
3) Press ctrl and the key with square bracket

What should happen: It should put you into "telnet>" prompt

What actually happens: Nothing, letters are just echoed onto screen.

Bypass: On Finnish keyboard, escape character is ctrl-5.

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Nathan Handler (nhandler) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

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status: New → Incomplete
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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

I can't reproduce this on a DE keyboard.

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Duane Hinnen (duanedesign) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can confirm this is happening in the latest release, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

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status: Incomplete → Invalid
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Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad) wrote :

Bug is still present in Hardy.

Daniel: You say you can't reproduce it on the DE keyboard. How does it work on DE keyboard?

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Anton (aezamalago) wrote :

Hello,
Just to be sure, did you try ?
strg + alt gr + 9

it works this way in spanish keyboard

Hope it can help.
Good Bye

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malev (marcosvanetta) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release?
One more thing, maybe you could try using the combination: ctrl + ] (I also have a latin keyboard)
Thanks in advance.
malev

Changed in netkit-telnet (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad) wrote :

Still broken in Ubuntu 9.04 amd64, telnet 0.17-36, Finnish keymap.

Anton: AltGr-Ctrl-9 doesn't work for me. What's "strg"? Is it Ctrl in German and Spanish keyboard?

Malev: Finnish keyboard doesn't have a single key for right square bracket ']'. Instead, you press AltGr-9 to get that character.

In addition to escape character not working, it echoes on the screen and doesn't work:
$ telnet localhost 80
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]^]^]^]^]^]^]^]^]^]^]^]^]^] AltGr-Ctrl-9 doesn't work...

Just like in 2006, escape character with Finnish keyboard is Ctrl-5.

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Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad) wrote :

I tested AltGr-Ctrl-9 again, and it does work. It seems to work reliably by pressing it once on an empty line, then pressing enter. In my example above, the text "...doesn't work" caused the escape sequence to be ignored.

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malev (marcosvanetta) wrote :

Tero,
Oks, so it's working? I'm glad to hear that :D
One more thing. I have a latin american keyboard, and I have a } key. To use ] I press: shift + }
If you have a latinamerican keyboard, maybe it's not well configurated.
Regards
malev

Changed in netkit-telnet (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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torzsmokus (torzsmokus) wrote :

try Ctrl + 5

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godzilla (francesco-defrancesco) wrote :

I can reproduce this on Italian keyboard, Ubuntu 12.04. Don't know if it's fixed in 13.04 though.

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