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Date: | Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:32:25 -0400 |
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--------------040002080806050804010804 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.) --------------040002080806050804010804 Content-Type: text/plain; name="temp.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="temp.txt" obyčejné Κανονικά Normál Обычный Normálne --------------040002080806050804010804 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple --------------040002080806050804010804--
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