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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:00:56 +0000
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Subject: Re: mintty - char encoding problems
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On 19 February 2010 19:39, David Bala=C5=BEic:
> Hi!
>
> I have few days old setup of cygwin on WinXP.
> I also installed mintty.
>
> I worked fine on one user account, which is a member of the
> Administrators group.
>
> Today I started mintty under another, not admin, user, and got this:
>
> =C3=82=C2=BB./.bashrc=C3=82=C2=AB -> =C3=82=C2=BB/home/work//.bashrc=C3=
=82=C2=AB
> =C3=82=C2=BB./.bash_profile=C3=82=C2=AB -> =C3=82=C2=BB/home/work//.bash_=
profile=C3=82=C2=AB
> =C3=82=C2=BB./.inputrc=C3=82=C2=AB -> =C3=82=C2=BB/home/work//.inputrc=C3=
=82=C2=AB
>
> I also can not type certain non-ascii chars, that worked fine in the
> first user, like =C4=8D=C5=A1=C5=BE.
> Now they appear on the bach command line as c ( =C5=A1 and =C5=BE don't a=
ppear at all).
>
> Any idea what is wrong?

A mismatch of Cygwin's charset and mintty's charset, probably. What
versions of Cygwin and mintty are you using? What are the values of
LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG? Is anything set in the Charset (or
Codepage) field on the Text pane of mintty's options?

Andy

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