me scribbled: > Eric wrote: >>> What exactly is coming out as rectangles, i.e. which letters do you >>> expect instead? Are any particular programs affected? >> >> Instead of Chinese characters I get the rectangle box that looks like [] but >> without the gaps. >> >> Programs affected so far are the command prompt and filenames. >> >> The OS that cygwin is running on is Windows 7 32bit English - using the >> Chinese Traditional language pack. > > I see. Lucida Console and Consolas don't contain glyphs for Chinese or > the other East Asian languages. In non-console programs such as PuTTY, > Windows automatically substitutes glyphs from appropriate fonts, but > for some reason it doesn't do that in the console. Nor does it allow > you to switch to fonts like SimSun or MingLiU, unless, that is, you > change the system's "Language for non-Unicode programs" on the > Administrative tab of the Region&Language control panel to Chinese.
Actually there is a way to change to a font not normally available in the console properties without changing the "Language for non-Unicode programs". It requires registry hacking though. See http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-cmd-add-font.html 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
