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Subject: Re: getclip and putclip garble unicode characters
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Am 24.06.2021 um 08:35 schrieb Andrey Repin via Cygwin:
> Greetings, Миронов Леонид Владимирович!
>
>> getclip and putclip from cygutils-extra garble unicode characters:
>> non-latin characters copied to clipboard in windows are replaced with
>> question marks when retrieved with getclip in cygwin, and non-latin
>> characters copied to clipboard using putclip are pasted it in windows
>> looking like utf-8 displayed in cp1252 but can be retrieved with getclip
>> exactly as pasted, so it looks like the problem is not in the way the data
>> is copied but in the way cygwin and windows communicate text encoding to
>> each other. LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8, windows ANSI codepage is set to cp1251 - 1251, not 1252.
> This looks like you are using a program incapable of dealing with unicode
> clipboard. To achieve better results, switch your input language/keyboard to
> matching language before copying text from application. I.e. switch to
> Russian then copy text, then check what is returned by getclip.
> But then, why LC_CTYPE is en_US?
getclip and putclip are just broken, they don't even work in a pure 
UTF-8 environment.
Already noticed 9 years ago... 
https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin/2012-03/msg00648.html
including a script-based replacement.
Thomas

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