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Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:36:03 +0100
From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
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Subject: Re: UTF-8 in Cygwin console on 1.7
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[maybe continue on cygwin-developers?]

Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/12/9 Cliff Hones
>   
>> I would guess the change is to file cygwin/fhandler_console.cc, and
>> is simply to remove line 1616 [ cursor_rel (1, 0); ] (after case NULL:)
>>     
> Yep, except that the patch removes the (misnamed) IGN case altogether.
>   
So the #define IGN should go as well...
Actually, I don't really understand this code part:
* What is the purpose of the lookup table for the switch rather than 
just switching on a few special control characters?
* What is the idea of (randomly?) assigning ERR to some control 
characters and NOR to others?
* How does the case NOR *work* actually? The characters *do* print out 
although according to the code only a replacement char U+2592 is 
written. Am I half-awake?

Maybe after clarifying this, the whole snipplet should be cleaned up a 
little bit.
Thomas

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