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On 10/3/2009 9:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Apart from bugfixes, this patch contains a change to the
> internationalization efforts in Cygwin which cristalized out of a couple
> of longish discussions on the cygwin and cygwin-developer lists.
> 
> Here's how it's supposed to work in future:
[...]
> - The "C" locale's default charset is UTF-8.

Does this mean that non-ASCII characters are supposed to display OOTB, 
or is some user configuration expected?  Here's a test case.

I've tried to view the attached file (extracted from the output of 
fc-list) in various ways, and here's what I've found (running XP in the 
U.S., with no language-related customization):

  - Using emacs under X, emacs recognizes the file as UTF-8 and displays 
the foreign characters correctly.

  - 'cat temp.txt' in the cygwin console produces lots of question marks.

  - 'cat temp.txt' in xterm or mintty produces lots of garbage.  The 
garbage changes in mintty if I change the choice of codepage in the 
options, but I haven't been able to get rid of the garbage.

  - If I set LANG=C.UTF-8 before starting xterm, I get correct display 
of the foreign characters as in emacs (under X).  But this doesn't seem 
to work for the cygwin console or mintty (or at least I haven't figured 
out how to make it work).

Ken

P.S. This post is related to the discussion started in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-10/msg00062.html.  But I'm 
approaching the question as a user, so I didn't think I should reply 
there.  (I'm not subscribed anyway.)



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