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Date:	Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:36:05 -0600
From:	Warren Young <warren AT etr-usa DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Cygwin UTF-8
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John Morrison wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to get Cygwin to run as utf-8 and failing.  

Cygwin itself doesn't care what character set you are using.

The only thing I can think of where you might think Cygwin would have 
some effect here is printing UTF-8 to the console and expecting it to 
use the right characters.  This will not happen, because the Windows 
console does not use UTF-8.  By default, it only deals with 8-bit 
characters in your local code page.  There's a way to set the console to 
accept UCS-2 encoded characters.

If this is your problem, you should be using something like iconv() to 
allow your program to run on 8-bit systems, UTF-8 systems, and UCS-2 
systems transparently.

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