Escape character does not work
Bug #41145 reported by
Tero Karvinen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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netkit-telnet (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Unassigned |
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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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.