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Type " into Windows cmd comes out as ~

Asked by Tony May

When I use the function:

type("\"")

into a Windows CMD I get the following typed into the CMD window:

~

How can I stop this happening so that it will always type " not ~

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Tony May (tonymay) said : 		#1

Sikuli version 2.0.4 and 2.0.5

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

probably the problem that is covered in faq 933

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#3

At least for Windows since 2.0.x faq 933 is no longer relevant, since for typing into normal applications (like editors) we now auto-detect the actual keyboard layout and type should work as expected.

But since the command line is not a "normal" application (apparently different input techniques), it does not work here.

The easiest workaround is to start a commandline, switch it to an EN/US keyboardlayout and then type into it from SikuliX.

Of course you can also try to use paste() as mentioned in faq 933.

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Tony May (tonymay) said : 		#4

Hi RaiMan,

You say switch the commandline to an EN/US keyboard, how do you do this?

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#5

Windows system settings

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