Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/04/14/13:08:34
On Apr 3 16:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 3 12:37, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > This would mean you could no longer effectively invoke the cygwin.bat
> > or cygwinutf.bat scripts within a Windows console and get the proper
> > charset? That would not be good.
>
> No, that's not right. The locale setting for the console would last
> from the first Cygwin parent process started in a console, up to the
> last Cygwin child process called by another Cygwin process, without
> invoking another native Windows process in the interim. Every closed
> Cygwin process tree works on it's own console-wise, for all practical
> purposes. Start cmd.exe from your bash, and then start bash again, then
> these two bashes will not share certain information which is inherited
> to Cygwin child processes, inclduing console settings.
>
> Again, the setting of the console would depend on the
> LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG setting when you start the first Cygwin process of
> a Cygwin process tree in that console. It would last for all Cygwin
> processes within the same process tree.
This approach is now implemented in 1.7.0-46. Please give it a try.
Corinna
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