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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:30:47 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: codepage translation of environment
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On Mar  8 09:01, Heiko_Elger AT arburg DOT com wrote:
> In codepage 1252 (latin1) character 0xe4 represents the umlaut a!!
> In codepage 850 character 0xa4 represents the umlaut a!!
> 
> Why do cygwin this conversion?

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM, I guess!

> I did some test using the CYGWIN environment variable with codepage:ansi and
> codepage:oem!
> But the characters are still converted - the codepage affects only the
> repesentation on screen but not the characters values!

Then you didn't test correctly!

In cmd.exe:

  > set ZZ=XaouY	<-- aou = umlaut-a umlaut-o umlaut-u!
  > bash
  $ echo $ZZ
  X",?Y
  $ exit
  > set CYGWIN=codepage:oem
  > bash
  $ echo $ZZ
  XaouY			<-- aou = umlaut-a umlaut-o umlaut-u!


!
Corinna

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