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On Oct  6 11:32, Ken Brown wrote:
> 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.

I don't understand this.  Are you sure you're running the latest -62
release?  Without any environment setting (LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG), the
console is using UTF-8 by default, just like anything else.  If I call
`cat temp.txt', I get a selection of the finest native characters (looks
like a mix of eastern european umlauts, greek, and russian).  With
vim, I get a few weird characters which appears to be related to the
fact that vim doesn't really recognize the file as UTF-8.  As soon as I
set $LANG to (for instance) C.UTF-8, vim is happy as well.  Alternatively,
`:set encoding=utf-8' in vim is sufficent as well.


Corinna

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