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Subject: Re: setting character set in mintty
From: Pawel Jasinski <pawel DOT jasinski AT gmail DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru> wrote:
> 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.

At the moment I am using ugly 'cmd /c chcp 65001' and it does help.
BTW. this is a solution recommended by cygwin FAQ. I guess I am not
the first one who encounter this inconvenience.

> 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.


To be specific, IronPython and cpython interpreters are program which
respect CP settings.
Any .net based console application is by default respecting CP settings.
The minimalistic example of such a program:

using System;
namespace encoding_console {
    class Program {
        static void Main(string[] args) {
            Console.WriteLine("\u2192");
        }
    }
}


>
> P.S.
> Please teach your mail agent to insert proper threading headers. A thread
> scattered across multiple pieces is very hard to follow.
> If you're subscribed in digest mode, reply to your own messages sent to the
> list.

This is the case. I didn't realized I was messing something up by
editing things by hand. Sorry.

>
>
> --
> WBR,
> Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 08.07.2014, <21:49>
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>

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