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Subject: Fw: no cyrillic fonts in windows 2000
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 13:13:44 -0500
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Sorry, those should be cyrillic strings, the first one is Окуджава, the
second one is йцукцуш :)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kuzma725" <kuzma725 AT hotmail DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: no cyrillic fonts in windows 2000


> Igor, I have another question for you.  Maybe this should be addressed to
> another list, but I figured you might know the answer.. hope this is not
too
> off-topic.  I have an TCL script that I run using Expect from Cygwin.  It
> used to work fine, but one day something happened that messed it up, and I
> can't figure out what it is.  Here's an 3-line version of the script,
> demonstrating the problem, that you will understand even if you don't know
> TCL or Expect:
>
> #!/bin/tclsh
> set author [lindex $argv 0]
> puts #$author#
>
> All this does is print to the standard output the first parameter to the
> script from the command line.  When I run the script (testCyr.tcl) with a
> cyrillic parameter:
>
> expect testCyr.tcl ????????
>
> I am expecting this output:
>
> #????????#
>
> but instead get:
>
> #???????
>
> and no error messages.  But some cyrillic strings, such as "???????" work
> fine, as well as any latin string.  Any ideas?  I am positive that it
worked
> before!
>
>
> Thanks,
> Yury
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
> To: "Kuz'ma 725" <kuzma725 AT hotmail DOT com>
> Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 11:38 AM
> Subject: Re: no cyrillic fonts in windows 2000
>
>
> > Yury,
> >
> > Please keep replies on the list, so that people searching the archives
> > later can find out whether a particular method worked or not.  Also, as
> > the underlined header field below indicates, I prefer to read the
> > responses on the list.
> >
> > Glad it worked for you.
> > Igor
> >
> > On Tue, 13 May 2003, Kuz'ma 725 wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Igor, that was it.  I'll check the faq more carefully next
time.
> > > Yury
> > >
> > > >From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
> > > >Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> >    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > >To: "Kuz'ma 725" <kuzma725 AT hotmail DOT com>
> > > >CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > > >Subject: Re: no cyrillic fonts in windows 2000
> > > >Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 12:19:31 -0400 (EDT)
> > > >
> > > >On Tue, 13 May 2003, Kuz'ma 725 wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I have 2 installations of Win2K, and I was able to somehow get
> cygwin to
> > > > > display cyrillic input from the keyboard (although it still shows
> cyrillic
> > > > > filenames as ?s)... but I forgot how I did it!  I have the latest
> > > > > XFree86-fcyr package (4.2.0-2) installed in both places and the
same
> > > > > settings in Windows' Regional Options - English (United States) as
> my locale
> > > > > (location), Cyrillic/Russian as default System Locale, in Advanced
I
> checked
> > > > > all the fonts that have anything to do with cyrillic, and Russian
> and
> > > > > English keyboard locales.  Any suggestions?  This is driving me
> crazy!
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks in advance
> > > >
> > > >Which program are you talking about here?  If it's a bash console
> window,
> > > >the X fonts will not affect it -- you have to select a Windows font
in
> > > >Properties that has cyrillic characters in it.  If it's rxvt or
xterm,
> > > >then indeed you'll have to use the X fonts (at least in the X mode of
> > > >rxvt).
> > > >
> > > >Furthermore, are you talking about *displaying* cyrillic characters,
or
> > > >*inputting* them?  If the former, try "cat"ting a file containing
those
> > > >characters and if that doesn't work properly, look at the first
> paragraph
> > > >above.  If the latter, see <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC49>.
> > > > Igor
> > > >P.S. For the "ls" problem, try the --show-control-chars parameter.
;-)
> >
> > -- 
> > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
> >       |\      _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu
> > ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com
> >      |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-' Igor Pechtchanski
> >     '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!
> >
> > Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
> >   -- Leto II
> >
> >
>

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