From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Corinna Vinschen > On Sep 18 09:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> hi list, >> >> I'm a cygwin-nuser who wants to use unixbased programs as >> mutt, pine, >> tin or slrn on my winxp(sp2)-machine. mutt and slrn are >> working fine >> in bash, only tin makes problems:.....look at subject. >> >> In a german usenetgroup was said, that this problem is a >> cygwin- not a >> tin-problem because cygwin is not made to support >> 'locales'. I'm not a >> programmer, only a nuser, who wants tin working fine under cygwin. >> What can I do, to see the german umlauts in tin instead of >> questionmarks? > > I don't know a way to get german umlauts in Cygwin's tin, but > I know a good workaround which I'm using even on Linux to get > rid of these dreaded umlauts. Start tin from bash like this: > > $ ISO2ASC=2 tin <...args...> > > You can also experiment with other ISO2ASC settings (0-6).
thnx, and if no more writing, the problem is SOLVED -- regards Reinhard -- 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/
