Siegfried Heintze wrote: > Is the third time a charm! I hope so. I forgot to turn off HTML > again! > > I apologize if this query appears again. Since I saw no replies (and > not even my own posting) after checking my spam filters, I assume it > never got to the list (Maybe I forgot to turn of HML the first time > too!) > > Is it possible to do this (display Russian Cyrillic and Chinese) at > the cygwin console prompt? I hear it is not possible at CMD.EXE > prompt. I'm not sure how the bash console is implemented in cygwin > but if it is running CMD.EXE underneath and CMD.EXE cannot do it, the > outlook is bleak! I was really suprised to learn that CMD.exe cannot > do it and I question the accuracy of my source. > > I did some searching and experimenting and I cannnot figure out how > to do it with the cygwin bash console. I have posted a similar query > on the XFree list because I would like to do it both in xterm and the > cygwin bash console (is there a better name for this since it could > be running some other shell?) > > Thanks, Siegfried >
Hi Siegfried, Install rxvt and use that instead. I believe there's a unicode package of it in Cygwin - it should have no trouble displaying cyrillic or chinese characters. You can convert your existing Cygwin startup script to launch rxvt instead of starting bash in a CMD prompt, or you can change the shortcut to start rxvt straight away - this way you don't have a 'phantom' cmd window hanging around.. There have been messages about doing so in the past, and a quick google should turn something up. HTH, Chris -- 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/
