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Date:	Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:14:06 +0100
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Subject:	Re: mintty - char encoding problems
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On 20 February 2010 00:08, David Bala=C5=BEic <xerces9 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> On 19 February 2010 21:00, Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> On 19 February 2010 19:39, David Bala=C5=BEic:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I have few days old setup of cygwin on WinXP.
>>> I also installed mintty.
>>>
>>> I worked fine on one user account, which is a member of the
>>> Administrators group.
>>>
>>> Today I started mintty under another, not admin, user, and got this:
>>>
>>> =C3=82=C2=BB./.bashrc=C3=82=C2=AB -> =C3=82=C2=BB/home/work//.bashrc=C3=
=82=C2=AB
>>> =C3=82=C2=BB./.bash_profile=C3=82=C2=AB -> =C3=82=C2=BB/home/work//.bas=
h_profile=C3=82=C2=AB
>>> =C3=82=C2=BB./.inputrc=C3=82=C2=AB -> =C3=82=C2=BB/home/work//.inputrc=
=C3=82=C2=AB
>>>
>>> I also can not type certain non-ascii chars, that worked fine in the
>>> first user, like =C4=8D=C5=A1=C5=BE.
>>> Now they appear on the bach command line as c ( =C5=A1 and =C5=BE don't=
 appear at all).
>>>
>>> Any idea what is wrong?
>>
>> A mismatch of Cygwin's charset and mintty's charset, probably. What
>> versions of Cygwin and mintty are you using? What are the values of
>> LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG? Is anything set in the Charset (or
>> Codepage) field on the Text pane of mintty's options?
>
> =C2=A0Cygwin DLL version info:
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0DLL version: 1.7.1
> mintty =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 0.5.7-1
>
> $LANG is SL , =C2=A0LC_* are undefined
>
> The mintty Text settings are empty.
>
> As mentioned, this is a fresh install and 99,9% of settings are at defaul=
t.
>
> Windows Regional settings are:
> Standards and formats : Slovenian
> Location: United States
> Input Language/Keyborad layout: US English
>

Aha, the other account has:
Standards and formats : English (US)

I changed it on this account too and now it works.
$LANG is now C.UTF-8

It smells like a bug. A non US locale should not disable UTF-8, or?

Regards,
David

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