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On 3/5/2013 5:00 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 04.03.2013 18:48, schrieb marco atzeri:
>> On 3/4/2013 5:49 PM, dbpradeep wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How can I change the locale in cygwin terminal for a session from 
>>> english to
>>> say french and then run diskpart commands say list disk, to get the 
>>> results
>>> in french
>>>
>>>
>>
>> diskpart does not belong to cygwin, so it behave differently
>> than cygwin programs
>>
>> For cygwin programs define LANG to your preferred setting:
>>
>> $ export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
>>
>> $ diskpart /?
>>
>> Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601
>> Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
>> On computer: MARCOATZERI
>>
>> Microsoft DiskPart syntax:
>> diskpart [/s <script>] [/?]
>>
>> /s <script> - Use a DiskPart script.
>> /? - Show this help screen.
>>
>>
>> $ ls --help
>> Utilisation : ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
>> Liste des informations à propos des FILE(s) (du répertoire actuel par 
>> défaut).
>> Trie les entrées alphabétiquement si aucune des options -cftuvSUX ou 
>> --sort
>> n'est utilisées.
>> Les arguments obligatoires pour les options longues le
>> [cut]
> For Windows tools, as far as I know, you could only change the Region 
> and Language settings - Extended settings, in System Control, and then 
> need to reboot, so this is not flexible (at least in Windows XP).
> A related problem, though not an answer to your question, is the 
> problem of the character set.
> Again, Windows tools use a completely different mechanism than cygwin. 
> Worse, different tools follow different criteria. The character 
> encoding for diskpart can be configured with the "codepage" setting at 
> runtime, like this in a Cygwin Terminal (mintty):
>
> $ diskpart "/?"
> Microsoft DiskPart Version 5.1.3565
> ...
> Syntax f▒r Microsoft-Datentr▒gerpartitionierung:
> ...
> $ chcp.com 65001
> Aktive Codepage: 65001.
> $ diskpart "/?"
> Microsoft DiskPart Version 5.1.3565
> ...
> Syntax für Microsoft-Datenträgerpartitionierung:
> ...
>
> For this reason, it would actually be nice if some cygwin component 
> could synchronize settings (implicitly set chcp following the locale).
> On the other hand, this does not help with all tools (probably because 
> they use different ones among the variety of output mechanisms 
> available in Windows):
>
> $ xcopy
> Unzul▒ssige Parameteranzahl
> $ chcp.com 65001
> $ xcopy
> Unzul▒ssige Parameteranzahl
>
> ------
> Thomas
>

To avoid this mess, when i need to reinstall windows, i installed a 
english version instead...

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