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Subject:	Re: [1.7] Accented characters don't work
Date:	Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:26:59 +0100
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On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:23:49 +0100, I wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:16:44 +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>
>> --- Sab 28/11/09, lemkemch  ha scritto:
>>
>>> > and the Cygwin console. Urxvt and xterm require an X
>>> server.
>>>
>>> And that I really don't like.  Way too complex for my
>>> taste for the
>>> simple task of popping up a text window.
>>> >
>>
>> mintty is the right tool for replacing rxvt for not X11.
>>
>> on XP I have no problem to build a file like
>> $ touch ÄÄÆÉßü
>>
>> and to have exactly the same on explorer and from
>> cmd.
>>
>
> I just gave it a try.  It seemed to have solved the character
> problem but I now have a not responding mintty window.  I
> started mintty from the rxvt window and tried to send
> it to the background with CTRL/D (which is what I have mapped
> susp to).  mintty didn't go into the background so I CTRL/C'ed
> it in rxvt.  That freed up the rxvt prompt but didn't kill the
> mintty process.  The window still hangs around with that
> (Not Responding) headline.

I take that back.  Pilot error.  Mintty behaves fine.

But I still like an answer to this:

> But how do I get back a pure C locale?  I also
> want ls -l to output the old standard date format.  So
> setenv LANG C.what?  C.ISO-8859-15 is kind of nice (the accented
> chars display fine) but ls then shows the iso-type date format.
>

Michael


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