X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:52:25 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How to determine actual character set From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 20 March 2011 20:15, Matthias Meyer wrote: > I use cygwin 1.7.5 and run backups from Windoze to my Linux server by usi= ng > BackupPC. > I want to set the windows character set within the backuppc configuration > for preventing me from this filename renamings (e.g. the german "=C3=BC" = will be > replaced by "?") > > But how to determine the windows character set? The "Windows character set", if there is such a thing, is UTF-16. That's how files are encoded on disk with NTFS, and a backup program better supports that. > chcp will only deliver the code page (850 in one of my clients). That's the console code page, which is set to the system's "OEM" code page by default. These are the old DOS code pages. > But I need something like "cp1252" By which I guess you mean the system "ANSI" code page. > Is there a program within cygwin which would resolve my pain ;-) Not that I know of, but writing one is trivial: #include #include int main(void) { printf("%u\n", GetACP()); return 0; } Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple