Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:33:18 +0400 From: egor duda X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53 RC/4) Reply-To: egor duda Organization: deo X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <12810809132.20010718203318@logos-m.ru> To: Ralf Fassel CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Umlauts on commandline and in .bat files In-Reply-To: <15189.31481.723686.200194@jupiter.akutech-local.de> References: <15189.27038.830962.27804@jupiter.akutech-local.de> <20010718130055.B7388@cygbert.vinschen.de> <126156737787.20010718150901@logos-m.ru> <15189.31481.723686.200194@jupiter.akutech-local.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi! Wednesday, 18 July, 2001 Ralf Fassel ralf@akutech.de wrote: RF> * egor duda | >>> h:\ralf\si++.4.0.C138>./t.exe "-Í_õ÷³¯" | >>> 055 315 137 365 367 263 257 RF> | | CV>> CMD is running with OEM character set, Cygwin processes with ANSI. RF> | RF> | But one can change the latter by adding 'codepage:oem' to then CYGWIN RF> | environment variable. RF> I'd rather change the former... :-/ you have to write your own cmd.exe then... RF> I thought the character set only determines which character RF> representation is shown on the screen (octal 304 is Umlaut-A in one RF> set and fuzzy-bar in another), not which *byte* value is passed to the RF> command? Octal 304 is octal 304 no matter what character set? it also affects input. when you type something in console window and some program tries to read this input, what it got depends on what codepage is currently selected. Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/