Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > On Aug 18 14:19, Ilya Basin wrote: > > Hi. Currently, the code page for internal convertion of file names to > > unicode depends on programs's locale. > > I want to keep UTF-8 as current locale, but use CP1251 for this > > conversion. Is it possible? > > Maybe if you describe your problem slightly more detailed? Why would > you want CP1251 in a Cygwin application if all other apps are using UTF-8? > > Corinna > Hi! I've just found your reply in web archives; didn't receive a copy for some reason.
It's for git. Let me repost the question to git list: Most of our developers use msysgit which stores filenames in CP1251 encoding. Two of us use cygwin and linux. When checkout on both linux and cygwin, Russian filenames are garbled. On Cygwin it even worse, because the conversion of invalid UTF-8 chars to Unicode, made by Cygwin is irreversible, causing git to miss the files it've just checked out. Workaround for Cygwin is to change LANG from "C.UTF-8" to "ru_RU.CP1251". It fixes filenames, but brakes everything else: log (fixed by i18n.logOutputEncoding), status, show, diff. -- -- 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
