Can't enter square brackets in gfsh

Question

When I try to enter square brackets inside gfsh they do not always show on screen and if they are followed by digits the first two are not considered.

If I for example enter connect --locator=somehost[12345] this is shown:

It seems to help when I hit [ twice because then one [ makes it to the screen. But it remains impossible to get the closing square bracket ].

Please note that I use a German setting and thus have to press AltGr + 8 for the opening square bracket [ and AltGr + 9 for the closing square bracket ]. Other characters work, for example { and } which I also have to enter using AltGr + 7. The backslash \ that I have to enter by pressing AltGr + ß doesn't work too.

I posted this problem also on the Geode Jira.

Answer 1

As a workaround it works to enter those special characters using their Ascii value.

On Windows this is:

• Alt + 9 + 1 for the opening square bracket [
• Alt + 9 + 2 for the backslash \
• Alt + 9 + 3 for the closing square bracket ]

Please note that you have to use the numerical keyboard for this.