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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-62
On 10/3/2009 9:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Apart from bugfixes, this patch contains a change to the
internationalization efforts in Cygwin which cristalized out of a couple
of longish discussions on the cygwin and cygwin-developer lists.
Here's how it's supposed to work in future:
[...]
- The "C" locale's default charset is UTF-8.
Does this mean that non-ASCII characters are supposed to display OOTB,
or is some user configuration expected? Here's a test case.
I've tried to view the attached file (extracted from the output of
fc-list) in various ways, and here's what I've found (running XP in the
U.S., with no language-related customization):
- Using emacs under X, emacs recognizes the file as UTF-8 and displays
the foreign characters correctly.
- 'cat temp.txt' in the cygwin console produces lots of question marks.
- 'cat temp.txt' in xterm or mintty produces lots of garbage. The
garbage changes in mintty if I change the choice of codepage in the
options, but I haven't been able to get rid of the garbage.
- If I set LANG=C.UTF-8 before starting xterm, I get correct display
of the foreign characters as in emacs (under X). But this doesn't seem
to work for the cygwin console or mintty (or at least I haven't figured
out how to make it work).
Ken
P.S. This post is related to the discussion started in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-10/msg00062.html. But I'm
approaching the question as a user, so I didn't think I should reply
there. (I'm not subscribed anyway.)
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