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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 19:14:06 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Krzysztof Duleba cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Local (polish) characters In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > Hi! > > Is there a way to make Cygwin display polish characters? I see no > setconsole, setfont programs, nor /etc/sysconfig directory. Does Cygwin > support local character sets at all? > > Regards > Krzysztof Duleba Unless you're talking about X, Cygwin supports local character sets only to the extent that your version of Windows supports it. FWIW, I know it's possible, as my Cygwin consoles display Cyrillic characters with no problems. All I did was add the "Cyrillic" language setting to the "Regional Options" dialog. If you *are* asking about X, try asking on the cygwin-xfree list instead. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/