It looks that using: pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx pdftex.ini
instead of pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdftex.ini fixes the problem also for PDFTEX. I think that these solutions: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00041.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00042.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00047.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00057.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00060.html should go in the FAQ. Thanks, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/