Subject: Re: Cygwin does not have unicode support however FileZilla displays unicode
From: Andy Koppe <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:37:34 +0100
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

me scribbled:
> Eric wrote:
>>> What exactly is coming out as rectangles, i.e. which letters do you
>>> expect instead? Are any particular programs affected?
>>
>> Instead of Chinese characters I get the rectangle box that looks like [] but without the gaps.
>>
>> Programs affected so far are the command prompt and filenames.
>>
>> The OS that cygwin is running on is Windows 7 32bit English - using the Chinese Traditional language pack.
>
> I see. Lucida Console and Consolas don't contain glyphs for Chinese or
> the other East Asian languages. In non-console programs such as PuTTY,
> Windows automatically substitutes glyphs from appropriate fonts, but
> for some reason it doesn't do that in the console. Nor does it allow
> you to switch to fonts like SimSun or MingLiU, unless, that is, you
> change the system's "Language for non-Unicode programs" on the
> Administrative tab of the Region&Language control panel to Chinese.

Actually there is a way to change to a font not normally available in
the console properties without changing the "Language for non-Unicode
programs". It requires registry hacking though. See
http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-cmd-add-font.html

Andy

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