DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id
	:date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=FQNl3CygqiBGF9yW
	pzOS7p2Ue5yMh2CpY9tSjz4QCvEsQAFmTXKagIJ0TBTCkMqjnX5qCO5vugMkgg8g
	AS9NCOphDM8bOj2WYgyAddAT/t4ZltAGOgMPPX8kWZZt4onPUIb13gTPhsaAcmZH
	5DcZpy4HbAnG05GN/521defYTPc=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Reply-To: Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca
Subject: Re: Need help with multibyte UTF-8 characters
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <626a3c06-e9f2-1932-f1f3-47ddb2051215 AT gmail DOT com>
From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca>
Message-ID: <b190e8bc-a60e-2a30-5caa-a2f67a0b91ce@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 22:21:37 -0700
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <626a3c06-e9f2-1932-f1f3-47ddb2051215@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

On 2017-12-04 18:23, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> I want to use multibyte UTF-8 characters in 64-bit Cygwin under Windows 7.  The
> "vim" editor running in mintty displays the two-byte characters correctly, but
> not the three- (and I assume four-) byte characters, which instead display as
> rectangular filled-in blocks.  The "less" program doesn't even display two-byte
> characters correctly, but instead displays them as <A1> to <FF>, depending on
> the character in question, in reverse color in the terminal window.  The "cat"
> program is even worse, replacing every two-byte character with a character that
> looks like three horizontal bars stacked one above the other.  I've read the
> "Internationalization" page in the Cygwin online manual, but am still baffled. 
> My LANG environment variable is set to "en_US.UTF-8".  Can anyone help?

Your Windows Regional settings and your mintty/Options/Text/Language and
Character Set should be set to match.
The profile commands below set Cygwin locale to your Windows Regional settings
and charset to UTF-8, or Unix locale to your system locale.
Otherwise your system or mintty is going to be doing conversions on each character.

# Set user-defined locale
locale -fU > /dev/null 2>&1     \
        && LC_ALL=$(locale -fU) \
        || LC_ALL=$(locale |    \
                sed '/^LANG=\|^LC_CTYPE=\|^LC_ALL=/{s///;h};$!d;x;s/"//g')

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

--
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