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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Schaible=2C_J=F6rg=22?= <Joerg DOT Schaible AT gft DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: A codepage:oem problem
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:22:39 +0200 
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Hi

> From: alper [mailto:shullgum AT yahoo DOT com]
> When I set CYGWIN=codepage:oem (to remedy the problem with box drawing
> chars under ncurses), some local letters are displayed 
> incorrectly (i.e.
> non-letter glyphs).
> 
> The setup is W2K Pro, cygwin 1.3.12-2, GetACP() returns 1254, 
> GetOEMCP()
> returns 857. 
> 
> Any idea on how to resolve this?

This is by design. Local characters and characters for box drawing have the
same character code, so you can either have the drawing boxes or the local
chars.

Regards,
Jörg

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