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Subject:	Re: Non-trivial Cyrillic question
References:	<400D3F1B DOT 4010504 AT contact DOT bg>
From:	Roman Belenov <rbelenov AT yandex DOT ru>
Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:27:18 +0300
In-Reply-To:	<400D3F1B.4010504@contact.bg> (Alexander Shopov's message of "Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:45:47 +0200")
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Alexander Shopov <ash AT contact DOT bg> writes:

> However when I pipe it to less
>
> cat myfile | less
>
> it gets broken
> I get things like: <CF><D0><C5><CF><C8><D1><CA><C0>

You should tell less what characters are supposed to be printable
using LESSCHARSET or LESSCHARDEF environment variable (man less for
details).

> ls *
>
> it is displayed like
> ????.txt

ls uses current locale to determine which characters are
printable. AFAIK cygwin isn't locale-aware (I can be mistaken); the
possible workaround is to use --show-control-chars switch to print all
characters literally.

BTW Is cp1251 the only 8-bit encoding used by Bulgarian locale in MS
Windows ? In Russia two encoding are used - cp866 as OEM (used, e.g.,
in console), cp1251 as ANSI.

-- 
 							With regards, Roman.


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