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Subject: Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?
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On Jan 15 11:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 15 11:08, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
> > >http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html
> > 
> > I've now read that page. As UTF-8 is generally the preferred
> > charset, I would like to stick to it. Does changing the language,
> > e.g. to de_CH, change umlaut handling? It doesn't seem to, here.
> 
> It does, though.  If you read the page you have learned that setting
> LANG to just a language (de_CH), without a charset (.UTF-8) will set the
> character set to the Windows codepage which is the default ANSI codepage
> on your machine.  In your case this is probably CP1252.  If you want to
> be sure to use UTF-8, then say so:  export LANG=de_CH.UTF-8.

Without the trailing dot, of course.  Sorry 'bout that.


Corinna

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