Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <1264BCF4F426D611B0B00050DA782A50027EFFD3@mail.gft.com> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Schaible=2C_J=F6rg=22?= To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: A codepage:oem problem Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:22:39 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g71BMmP25847 Hi > From: alper [mailto:shullgum@yahoo.com] > When I set CYGWIN=codepage:oem (to remedy the problem with box drawing > chars under ncurses), some local letters are displayed > incorrectly (i.e. > non-letter glyphs). > > The setup is W2K Pro, cygwin 1.3.12-2, GetACP() returns 1254, > GetOEMCP() > returns 857. > > Any idea on how to resolve this? This is by design. Local characters and characters for box drawing have the same character code, so you can either have the drawing boxes or the local chars. Regards, Jörg -- 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/