Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/04/02/09:59:44
On Apr 2 16:30, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> [Should I have responded to cygwin-announce? Not sure.]
Definitely not.
> Corinna Vinschen wrote on cygwin-announce:
> > What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-44
> > ===================================
> >
> > - A lot of character sets are supported now via a call to setlocale().
> > The setting of the environment variables $LANG, $LC_ALL or $LC_CTYPE will
> > be used. For instance, setting $LANG to "de_DE.ISO-8859-15" before
> > starting a Cygwin session will use the ISO-8859-15 character set in
> > the entire session. UTF-8 is supported as well, as in "en_US.UTF-8".
> >
> > Along these lines, the "CYGWIN=codepage:{ansi,oem}" setting has been
> > removed in favor of using $LANG, $LC_ALL, or $LC_CTYPE.
> >
> This is a great step. However, there is a problem. Until 1.7.0-44, the
> terminal encoding was maintained transparently into a remote session,
> so that if you rlogin somewhere else, you would have the same encoding as
> configured in the cygwin console. This worked nicely with all three
> available encodings, the default (CP1252), codepage:oem and codepage:utf8.
> (For most situations, you would still have to set LC_ variables explicitly
> on the remote system; well, most remote systems would not have CPxxx
> locale data but that's a different issue.)
>
> Now with 1.7.0-45, after remote login, the encoding is always just
> ISO-8859-1, while of course, if I have a UTF-8 terminal, I want to take
> this over to the remote system. Maybe it's some interworking problem
> with the new cygwin dll and the old rlogin.exe?
> Until 1.7.0-44, even something like the following worked:
> Inside a default cygwin console (or a codepage:oem) console, you could type
> CYGWIN=codepage:utf8 rlogin ...
> and get a UTF-8 remote terminal environment. Now, no attempt to
> establish that seems to work anymore.
>
> I would appreciate if this can be resolved,
Baaeh. That's one aspect I didn't realize when I made this change.
Does that really mean we have to keep codepage:foo just for the sake
of the Windows console window? Does anybody have any other idea?
Corinna
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