X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <761680.56258.qm@web25505.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:05:57 +0000 Message-ID: <416096c60911281205i6ad26fa0m65b49ee7df802664@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [1.7] Accented characters don't work From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 2009/11/28 lemkemch: > But how do I get back a pure C locale? If by that you mean an ASCII locale: C.ASCII. (Btw, that's essentially the same as C.ISO-8859-1, i.e. it's 8-bit not 7-bit). >=C2=A0I also > want ls -l to output the old standard date format. =C2=A0So > setenv LANG C.what? =C2=A0C.ISO-8859-15 is kind of nice (the accented > chars display fine) but ls then shows the iso-type date format. The date format is controlled by the LC_TIME locale category. Hence you could get both the Euro charset and the traditional date format with this: LANG=3DC.ISO-8859-15 LC_TIME=3DC Regarding the LANG setting, I'd recommend setting it to the language you prefer, e.g. de_DE.ISO-8859-15 or en_GB.ISO-8859-15, because the C.* locales are unlikely to be recognised when connecting to other systems. Andy -- 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