X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_FAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B504BC9.6090000@gmx-topmail.de> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:04:41 +0100 From: Niklaus Kuehnis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7? References: <20100112145927.264380@gmx.net> <20100112151039.GA25477@calimero.vinschen.de> <4B503EB4.1000605@gmx-topmail.de> <20100115101858.GF22230@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20100115101858.GF22230@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Corinna Vinschen schrieb: >> I've now read that page. As UTF-8 is generally the preferred >> charset, I would like to stick to it. Does changing the language, >> e.g. to de_CH, change umlaut handling? It doesn't seem to, here. > > It does, though. If you read the page you have learned that setting > LANG to just a language (de_CH), without a charset (.UTF-8) will set the > character set to the Windows codepage which is the default ANSI codepage > on your machine. In your case this is probably CP1252. If you want to > be sure to use UTF-8, then say so: export LANG=de_CH.UTF-8. I set this variable (and also LC_CTYPE and LC_ALL), and printing with umlauts with bare a2ps works fine now. Thanks! Niklaus -- 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