On 4/18/2012 8:06 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > 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.
It would be nice if putclip/getclip COULD speak Unicode. PTC. Indeed, PDS. (Ditto mkshortcut, lpr, readshortcut...) -- Chuck [*] Patches Desperately Solicited. -- 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
