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Re: codepage translation of environment
On Mar 8 09:01, Heiko_Elger@arburg.com wrote:
> In codepage 1252 (latin1) character 0xe4 represents the umlaut a!!
> In codepage 850 character 0xa4 represents the umlaut a!!
>
> Why do cygwin this conversion?
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM, I guess!
> I did some test using the CYGWIN environment variable with codepage:ansi and
> codepage:oem!
> But the characters are still converted - the codepage affects only the
> repesentation on screen but not the characters values!
Then you didn't test correctly!
In cmd.exe:
> set ZZ=XaouY <-- aou = umlaut-a umlaut-o umlaut-u!
> bash
$ echo $ZZ
X",?Y
$ exit
> set CYGWIN=codepage:oem
> bash
$ echo $ZZ
XaouY <-- aou = umlaut-a umlaut-o umlaut-u!
!
Corinna
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