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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
Subject: Re: Local (polish) characters
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 01:15:32 +0100
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* Krzysztof Duleba (2004-02-08 00:19 +0100)
> 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?

Cygwin itself is just an emulation layer so it cannot display any
character at all. For applications like bash, ls or other it depends
on your settings.

BTW (on my Gentoo box):

root@wolfbrand# setconsole
zsh: command not found: setconsole
root@wolfbrand# d /etc/sysconfig
/etc/sysconfig doesn't exist!
root@wolfbrand#

Thorsten


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