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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 22:00:26 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To: Pawel Jasinski <pawel DOT jasinski AT gmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: setting character set in mintty
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Greetings, Pawel Jasinski!

>>> The way I understand it, mintty sets the LANG variable according to
>>> user settings.
>>> Would it make sense for mintty to invoke "cmd /c chcp <selected>"
>>> (SetConsoleOutputCP)?

>>mintty does not use the console at all.  A chcp call doesn't make
>>any sense.

> Sorry for asking stupid question. My knowledge of cygwin internals lacks.
> However, I can see that for every mintty window (and bash) I get a
> conhost process running. I assume that it is where the character
> setting is stored for non-cygwin processes started from bash.
> Again, it is my naive believe, that somewhere there maybe a convenient
> place to call SetConsoleOutputCP with argument matching content of the
> LANG environment variable.

Even if you do that, it won't help anything at all. Typical windows program
does not expect a change in console code page at all.
If it was designed to use OEM CP, it will output in it regardless of actual
CP.

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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 08.07.2014, <21:49>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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