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2009/10/6 Ken Brown:
> I've tried to view the attached file (extracted from the output of fc-lis=
t)
> in various ways, and here's what I've found (running XP in the U.S., with=
 no
> language-related customization):
>
> =C2=A0- Using emacs under X, emacs recognizes the file as UTF-8 and displ=
ays the
> foreign characters correctly.
>
> =C2=A0- 'cat temp.txt' in the cygwin console produces lots of question ma=
rks.

You probably need to select a Unicode-enabled font in the console's
properties, e.g. Lucida Console.


> =C2=A0- 'cat temp.txt' in xterm or mintty produces lots of garbage. =C2=
=A0The 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.

It should be fine if you set the charset to UTF-8 and rerun the
command. Again, you also need to select a suitable font.


>  - If I set LANG=3DC.UTF-8 before starting xterm, I get correct display o=
f 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 ma=
ke
> it work).

mintty-0.4.4 ignores the locale variables, but that's changing in 0.5.

Andy

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