X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SARE_SUB_ENC_UTF8 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:06:01 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: utf-8 support with getclip? From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q3IC6TdV002007 On 17 April 2012 13:35, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > I'm having an issue with getclip and pasting utf-8 strings (like > "PONIEDZIAŁEK" for example).  Using mintty and right clicking I get > exactly what's in the clipboard.  If I call getclip from the command > line, I get PONIEDZIA?EK.  My LANG is set to en_CA.UTF-8. Yep, getclip (and putclip) don't have Unicode support (yet?), so characters outside your system's ANSI codepage end up as question marks. The special /dev/clipboard device does have Unicode support though, so you could just use 'cat /dev/clipboard' instead of getclip. 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