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From:	Thomas Taylor <tayloth AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:	Need help with multibyte UTF-8 characters
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Date:	Mon, 4 Dec 2017 20:23:57 -0500
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I want to use multibyte UTF-8 characters in 64-bit Cygwin under Windows 
7.  The "vim" editor running in mintty displays the two-byte characters 
correctly, but not the three- (and I assume four-) byte characters, 
which instead display as rectangular filled-in blocks.  The "less" 
program doesn't even display two-byte characters correctly, but instead 
displays them as <A1> to <FF>, depending on the character in question, 
in reverse color in the terminal window.  The "cat" program is even 
worse, replacing every two-byte character with a character that looks 
like three horizontal bars stacked one above the other.  I've read the 
"Internationalization" page in the Cygwin online manual, but am still 
baffled.  My LANG environment variable is set to "en_US.UTF-8".  Can 
anyone help?


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