X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SARE_SUB_ENC_UTF8,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F905EFA.4040906@towo.net> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:52:42 +0200 From: Thomas Wolff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: utf-8 support with getclip? References: <4F8F59B8.5060900@cwilson.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <4F8F59B8.5060900@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Am 19.04.2012 02:18, schrieb Charles Wilson: > On 4/18/2012 8:06 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 17 April 2012 13:35, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >>> I'm having an issue with getclip and pasting utf-8 strings (like >>> "PONIEDZIAŁEK" for example). Using mintty and right clicking I get >>> exactly what's in the clipboard. If I call getclip from the command >>> line, I get PONIEDZIA?EK. My LANG is set to en_CA.UTF-8. >> Yep, getclip (and putclip) don't have Unicode support (yet?), so >> characters outside your system's ANSI codepage end up as question >> marks. >> >> The special /dev/clipboard device does have Unicode support though, so >> you could just use 'cat /dev/clipboard' instead of getclip. > It would be nice if putclip/getclip COULD speak Unicode. PTC. Indeed, > PDS. (Ditto mkshortcut, lpr, readshortcut...) For the clipboard, this would be trivial to achieve; I had recently made a suggestion: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-03/msg00648.html Thomas -- 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