# Cannot type on the commandline (cmd) following chars for ex

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-type-on-the-commandline-cmd-following-chars-for-ex/114414>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 12, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-type-on-the-commandline-cmd-following-chars-for-ex/114414 "2007-09-12T14:03:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![pel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@pel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pel)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-type-on-the-commandline-cmd-following-chars-for-ex/114414/1 "2007-09-12T14:03:19Z")

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Hello,

I am total new to ruby so i need a bit help 🙂

I have installed the instantrails package. After i set the environment  
variable to

INPUTRC = C:\Programme\InstantRails\ruby\bin\inputrc.euro

after i started my apache and mysql server , run the cmd and entered  
“IRB” then i tried to type some special chars like:

@ or [] and it worked an hour later actually i havent changed anything  
(I swear 😉 ) i could not enter any special char anymore and it seems  
now i have the us keyboard now. Normally i have a german keyboard  
layout where the y and z is not exchanged.

Does someone know how i can manage to type the special chars again to  
use arrays etc???

I can feel already now RUBY rocks 😛

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**Author:** ![pel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@pel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pel)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-type-on-the-commandline-cmd-following-chars-for-ex/114414/2 "2007-09-12T17:40:12Z")

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suddenly after reboot all worked again LOL typical…