X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <17767635.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:26:59 -0700 (PDT) From: gmarsha11 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Extra spaces in text files in cygwin In-Reply-To: <20080610233030.GB18434@suncomp1.spk.agilent.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: gary DOT marshall AT hp DOT com References: <17764646 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <484EFB14 DOT 65C9E56F AT dessent DOT net> <17766865 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <20080610233030 DOT GB18434 AT suncomp1 DOT spk DOT agilent DOT com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Ok, have saved the file with Windows notepad as ANSI, Unicode, Unicode big endian, and UTF-8. Both Unicode options give me the output with the extra spaces. ANSI and UTF-8 allow me to see the files as I would expect to see them. Does this mean it's necessary to change the encoding for any files I might need to cat, grep awk, etc.? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Extra-spaces-in-text-files-in-cygwin-tp17764646p17767635.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/