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Hi Andy,

On Mar 26 06:03, Andy Koppe wrote:
> - Support for the Chinese GB18030 charset was added. Cygwin doesn't
> (yet) support it though, which is why it doesn't appear in the charset
> dropdown.

Shall we pick up the thread about GB18030 support in Cygwin on the
cygwin-developers list?  

> - Fall back to /bin/bash rather than /bin/sh if no shell is specified
> otherwise. This is for the benefit of Windows domain account users,
> for whom Cygwin setup does not create /etc/passwd entries by default.

Wouldn't it be more helpful to open a MessageBox like this:

"Your user account has no /etc/passwd entry.  Ask your lazy administrator
 to add it.  And tell her not to forget to add the domain groups to
 /etc/group while being at it."


Corinna

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