2009/11/16 aputerguy: > Well I'm using Putty to ssh into my Windows machine running cygwin 1.5 > When I do tab completion on the "foo:bar" file it completes to > foo\357\200\272 but perhaps the Unicode is coming from the Putty terminal > (which is set to UTF-8) though somehow bash is preserving the encoding that > gets translated that way...
Right, it was pasting into the UTF-8-configured PuTTY then that translated the U+F03A to \357\200\272. As far as Cygwin 1.5's bash is concerned, that's just a bunch of bytes. 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