On 17 April 2012 13:35, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > I'm having an issue with getclip and pasting utf-8 strings (like > "PONIEDZIAŁEK" for example). Using mintty and right clicking I get > exactly what's in the clipboard. If I call getclip from the command > line, I get PONIEDZIA?EK. My LANG is set to en_CA.UTF-8.
Yep, getclip (and putclip) don't have Unicode support (yet?), so characters outside your system's ANSI codepage end up as question marks. The special /dev/clipboard device does have Unicode support though, so you could just use 'cat /dev/clipboard' instead of getclip. 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
