2009/10/15 Markus Schaber: >> % export LANG=C.UTF-8 > > This was the solution - issuing that commando made it work. > > LANG=de.UTF-8 also seems to work. > > So I'll add this to my bashrc. Thanks a lot.
A better place for this is cygwin.bat for the console, or the Text page of the options dialog for mintty. This ensures that bash itself is run with the same setting. That's because the locale of a process is determined by the environment settings at process startup. 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