2009/10/6 Ken Brown: > I've tried to view the attached file (extracted from the output of fc-list) > in various ways, and here's what I've found (running XP in the U.S., with no > language-related customization): > > - Using emacs under X, emacs recognizes the file as UTF-8 and displays the > foreign characters correctly. > > - 'cat temp.txt' in the cygwin console produces lots of question marks.
You probably need to select a Unicode-enabled font in the console's properties, e.g. Lucida Console. > - 'cat temp.txt' in xterm or mintty produces lots of garbage. The garbage > changes in mintty if I change the choice of codepage in the options, but I > haven't been able to get rid of the garbage. It should be fine if you set the charset to UTF-8 and rerun the command. Again, you also need to select a suitable font. > - If I set LANG=C.UTF-8 before starting xterm, I get correct display of the > foreign characters as in emacs (under X). But this doesn't seem to work for > the cygwin console or mintty (or at least I haven't figured out how to make > it work). mintty-0.4.4 ignores the locale variables, but that's changing in 0.5. Andy -- 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
