X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: lemkemch@t-online.de Subject: Re: [1.7] Accented characters don't work Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:26:59 +0100 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <761680.56258.qm@web25505.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.01 (Win32) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:23:49 +0100, I wrote: > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:16:44 +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote: > >> --- Sab 28/11/09, lemkemch ha scritto: >> >>> > and the Cygwin console. Urxvt and xterm require an X >>> server. >>> >>> And that I really don't like. Way too complex for my >>> taste for the >>> simple task of popping up a text window. >>> > >> >> mintty is the right tool for replacing rxvt for not X11. >> >> on XP I have no problem to build a file like >> $ touch ÄÄÆÉßü >> >> and to have exactly the same on explorer and from >> cmd. >> > > I just gave it a try. It seemed to have solved the character > problem but I now have a not responding mintty window. I > started mintty from the rxvt window and tried to send > it to the background with CTRL/D (which is what I have mapped > susp to). mintty didn't go into the background so I CTRL/C'ed > it in rxvt. That freed up the rxvt prompt but didn't kill the > mintty process. The window still hangs around with that > (Not Responding) headline. I take that back. Pilot error. Mintty behaves fine. But I still like an answer to this: > But how do I get back a pure C locale? I also > want ls -l to output the old standard date format. So > setenv LANG C.what? C.ISO-8859-15 is kind of nice (the accented > chars display fine) but ls then shows the iso-type date format. > Michael -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple