Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:50:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Klaus Reimer cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Locales with wrong umlauts In-Reply-To: <200406261959.28313.k-cygwin@ailis.de> Message-ID: References: <200406261959 DOT 28313 DOT k-cygwin AT ailis DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Klaus Reimer wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get WebDruid (http://www.webdruid.org/) running on Windows with > german language. The compilation went fine and I have copied webdruid.exe > with all necessary DLLs to a Windows-Server. Now I'm trying to run it with > german language in cmd with these commands: > > set LC_ALL=de_DE > webdruid > > The output is german but the german umlauts are not displayed correctly. > Instead of 'gültigen' I get 'g"ultigen'. I think it's because the library > responsible for the locales (is that libintl2?) converts the output to 7-Bit > ASCII. How can I change this so the output is ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 or any > other encoding Windows can display correctly? I don't know that much about locales, but shouldn't adding a charset, e.g., "set LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8", work? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/