DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date
	:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=pgNz9dwKwAT5E5SD
	iOAGQ9XHHhr7JRN9ZQNojfxoTeWdREtD8yLK0beMw9oB0WxQ6YqOrOcOiChzsVCZ
	H7dgGIdq/HC2h5CHp8uHnhU9xHH8m2qEkAonz+irAO2PNwn95CSc388xZsB/3hIJ
	+ZQW86lVwZJYS0fvhL3X2XvUw3Q=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Unable to start mintty.
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
References: <819064387.20160330052747@yandex.ru> <918411307.20160330054904@yandex.ru>
From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
Message-ID: <56FB7FFB.4030609@towo.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:27:55 +0200
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <918411307.20160330054904@yandex.ru>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Am 30.03.2016 um 4:49 schrieb Andrey Repin:
> Greetings, All!
>
>> I've not used mintty for quite some time, and discovered today that I no
>> longer able to start it inside a directory. Quite frustrating moment is that I
>> can perfectly start it from desktop shortcut, but not from console.
>> After much fiddling, largely out of desperation, I tried to set LANG= in
>> console to the same value it have in GUI. Much to my surprise, mintty readily
>> popped up, like it wasn't a few long hours of constant failure.
>> The short version:
>> LANG=ru_RU.CP866  - mintty close immediately.
>> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8  - mintty start just fine.
> Another useful bit of info: I've had locale/encoding forced to ru_RU/UTF-8 in
> mintty settings. Was working fine in the past, overriding the locale set
> through environment variables (which let me had different locale setting in
> console, and still fully utilize unicode capabilities of mintty started from
> it).
>
> I've made two small tweaks to the way I invoke mintty now:
> 1. I've removed enforced locale in application settings and
> 2. I've corrected environment in the wrapper calling mintty from console,
> but this is not really a desirable solution.
Yes, this has been reported to 
https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/530 already, and it seems the 
small change of 2.3.3 isn't actually causing the problem but may have 
revealed another lurking bug which I'm currently chasing.
It doesn't seem to happen with option -d, by the way.
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