Re: Need help with multibyte UTF-8 characters

2017-12-12 Thread Thomas Wolff
Hi Brian, Am 13.12.2017 um 06:21 schrieb Brian Inglis: On 2017-12-04 18:23, Thomas Taylor wrote: I want to use multibyte UTF-8 characters in 64-bit Cygwin under Windows 7.  The "vim" editor running in mintty displays the two-byte characters correctly, but not the three- (and I assume four-) byt

Re: Need help with multibyte UTF-8 characters

2017-12-12 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-12-04 18:23, Thomas Taylor wrote: > I want to use multibyte UTF-8 characters in 64-bit Cygwin under Windows 7.  > The > "vim" editor running in mintty displays the two-byte characters correctly, but > not the three- (and I assume four-) byte characters, which instead display as > rectangul

Re: setup 2.883 release candidate - please test

2017-12-12 Thread cyg Simple
On 12/12/2017 10:06 PM, Vince Rice wrote: >> On Dec 12, 2017, at 6:12 PM, Steven Penny wrote: >> >> On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:04:09, Ken Brown wrote: >>> How can setup possibly automate this? It doesn't know where the corrupt >>> local tarball came from. For example, suppose you sometimes build pac

Re: setup 2.883 release candidate - please test

2017-12-12 Thread Vince Rice
> On Dec 12, 2017, at 6:12 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:04:09, Ken Brown wrote: >> How can setup possibly automate this? It doesn't know where the corrupt >> local tarball came from. For example, suppose you sometimes build packages >> yourself for testing or debugging.

Re: setup 2.883 release candidate - please test

2017-12-12 Thread Steven Penny
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:04:09, Ken Brown wrote: How can setup possibly automate this? It doesn't know where the corrupt local tarball came from. For example, suppose you sometimes build packages yourself for testing or debugging. You keep them in your local repository, and you also upload the

Re: Need help with multibyte UTF-8 characters

2017-12-12 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 12.12.2017 um 00:36 schrieb Thomas Taylor: ... This file attempts to convert XML-encoded filenames to UTF-8.  ... How about a generic script, like: sed -e 's,%,\\x,g' -e "s,^,echo $'," -e "s,$,'," | sh -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cy

Windows Search Service

2017-12-12 Thread cyg Simple
This may be known already but I thought I would share an experience I just encountered. I'm doing a build of a large package and I notice that my system is having issues with processing sound and other GUI issues. I looked at task manager CPU time and find that WSearch was gaining to the top of t

Re: Need help with multibyte UTF-8 characters

2017-12-12 Thread Thomas Taylor
I believe that Cygwin displays certain UTF-8 characters incorrectly.  To see the problem, first save the attached "utf-8_test.sed" text file to your desktop.  Then run "mintty," and set its options by right clicking in its title bar, selecting "Options" and then "Text."  On the Text page set "L

Re: Need help with multibyte UTF-8 characters

2017-12-12 Thread Doug Henderson
On 11 December 2017 at 16:36, Thomas Taylor wrote: > Thank you for your advice on setting my locale to en_US.UTF-8. > Unfortunately, Cygwin still seems to have trouble displaying some three-byte > UTF-8 encoded characters correctly. For example, see the following snippet > from a "sed" file. This

Re: libnet on cygwin: how to deal with libpcap?

2017-12-12 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-12-11 23:54, Gianpaolo Pedrazza wrote: > I need to install libnet and I found on various sites [2][3] that the > only one way to install the prerequisite libpcap is to extract the > Developer Pack [4] into cygwin. I did it, I run all the tests and the > pcap library seemed to work pretty we

Re: Git status delay

2017-12-12 Thread cyg Simple
On 12/11/2017 5:04 PM, Richard H Lee wrote: > > So if you lstat("//HEAD") and you are on a network that does DNS > hijacking, Cygwin will attempt to connect to the ISP's server via SMB. > As the ISP's server is a publicly facing IP address, it probably just > black holes any incoming connection re

Re: Vixie's cron and cron-config broken? /etc/passwd empty - Entry for the SYSTEM sid was not found in passwd. Unknown system name

2017-12-12 Thread OwN-3m-All
Anyone? -- 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

[ANNOUNCEMENT] ncmpc 0.29-1

2017-12-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * ncmpc-0.29-1 ncmpc is a curses client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). ncmpc connects to a MPD running on a machine on the local network, and controls this with an interface inspired by cplay. This is an update to the la

[ANNOUNCEMENT] mpd 0.20.12-1

2017-12-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * mpd-0.20.12-1 * mpd-doc-0.20.12-1 A daemon for playing music of various formats. Music is played through the server's audio device. The daemon stores info about all available music, and this info can be easily searched and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] libmpdclient 2.13-1

2017-12-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libmpdclient2-2.13-1 * libmpdclient-devel-2.13-1 * libmpdclient-doc-2.13-1 * vala-libmpdclient-2.13-1 A stable, asynchronous API for interfacing with the Music Player Daemon. This is an update to the latest upstream release:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] qmmp 1.1.12-1

2017-12-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * qmmp-1.1.12-1 * qmmp-devel-1.1.12-1 * qmmp-plugin-pack-1.1.5-1 The Qt Multimedia Player is a audio player with a user interface similar to WinAmp or XMMS. This is an update to the latest 1.1 release. -- Yaakov -- Problem

[ANNOUNCEMENT] audacious 3.9-1

2017-12-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * audacious-3.9-1 * audacious-libs-3.9-1 * audacious-devel-3.9-1 * audacious-plugins-3.9-1 Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK+, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focus

[ANNOUNCEMENT] SDL2 2.0.7-1, SDL2_image/SDL2_mixer 2.0.2-1

2017-12-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libSDL2_2.0_0-2.0.7-1 * libSDL2-devel-2.0.7-1 * libSDL2_image2.0_0-2.0.2-1 * libSDL2_image-devel-2.0.2-1 * libSDL2_mixer2.0_0-2.0.2-1 * libSDL2_mixer-devel-2.0.2-1 * mingw64-i686-SDL2-2.0.7-1 * mingw64-i686-SDL2_image-2.0.2-1

[ANNOUNCEMENT] php 7.1.12-1

2017-12-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * php-7.1.12-1 * php-devel-7.1.12-1 * httpd-mod_php7-7.1.12-1 * php-bcmath-7.1.12-1 * php-bz2-7.1.12-1 * php-calendar-7.1.12-1 * php-ctype-7.1.12-1 * php-curl-7.1.12-1 * php-dba-7.1.12-1 * php-enchant-7.1.12-1 * php-exif-7.1.12-

[ANNOUNCEMENT] nginx 1.12.2-1

2017-12-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * nginx-1.12.2-1 * nginx-mod_http_geoip-1.12.2-1 * nginx-mod_http_image_filter-1.12.2-1 * nginx-mod_http_perl-1.12.2-1 * nginx-mod_http_xslt_filter-1.12.2-1 * nginx-mod_mail-1.12.2-1 * nginx-mod_stream_geoip-1.12.2-1 nginx [eng

[ANNOUNCEMENT] netpbm 10.80.00-1

2017-12-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * netpbm-10.80.00-1 * libnetpbm10-10.80.00-1 * libnetpbm-devel-10.80.00-1 Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including conversion of images between a variety of different formats. There are over 220 sepa

[ANNOUNCEMENT] httpd 2.4.29-1

2017-12-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * httpd-2.4.29-1 * httpd-devel-2.4.29-1 * httpd-manual-2.4.29-1 * httpd-tools-2.4.29-1 * httpd-mod_http2-2.4.29-1 * httpd-mod_ldap-2.4.29-1 * httpd-mod_lua-2.4.29-1 * httpd-mod_proxy_html-2.4.29-1 * httpd-mod_ssl-2.4.29-1 The A

[ANNOUNCEMENT] convertall 0.7.3-1

2017-12-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * convertall-0.7.3-1 ConvertAll is a unit converter, written in PyQt. With ConvertAll, you can combine the units any way you want. If you want to convert from inches per decade, that's fine. Or from meter-pounds. Or from cubi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] qscintilla2 2.10.2-1

2017-12-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libqscintilla2_qt4_13-2.10.2-1 * libqscintilla2_qt4-common-2.10.2-1 * libqscintilla2_qt4-devel-2.10.2-1 * libqscintilla2_qt5_13-2.10.2-1 * libqscintilla2_qt5-common-2.10.2-1 * libqscintilla2_qt5-devel-2.10.2-1 * python2-pyqt4-

[ANNOUNCEMENT] PyQt 5.9.2

2017-12-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * python2-pyqt5-5.9.2-1 * python2-pyqt5-qt3d-5.9.2-1 * python2-pyqt5-qtchart-5.9.2-1 * python2-pyqt5-qtdatavisualization-5.9.2-1 * python2-sip-4.19.6-1 * python3-pyqt5-5.9.2-1 * python3-pyqt5-qt3d-5.9.2-1 * python3-pyqt5-qtchart

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Qt 5.9.3

2017-12-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libQt53D5-5.9.3-1 * libQt53D-devel-5.9.3-1 * libQt5Charts5-5.9.3-1 * libQt5Charts-devel-5.9.3-1 * libQt5Core5-5.9.3-1 * libQt5Core-devel-5.9.3-1 * libQt5DataVisualization5-5.9.3-1 * libQt5DataVisualization-devel-5.9.3-1 * libQ

[ANNOUNCEMENT] texlive-collection-bibtexextra 20171212-1

2017-12-12 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * texlive-collection-bibtexextra-20171212-1 * texlive-collection-bibtexextra-doc-20171212-1 This is an update to the latest upstream release. It includes biblatex-3.9, which is needed for biber-2.9. Ken Brown Cygwin'

[ANNOUNCEMENT] biber 2.9-1

2017-12-12 Thread Ken Brown
The following package has been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * biber-2.9-1 Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX. Biber supports full UTF-8, can (re-)encode input and output, supports highly configurable sorting, dynamic bibliography sets, and many other features. This is a

Re: setup 2.883 release candidate - please test

2017-12-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/11/2017 7:26 PM, Steven Penny wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:46:30, Jon Turney wrote: A new setup release candidate is available at:    https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.883.x86.exe    (32 bit version)    https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.883.x86_64.exe (64 bit version) Please test and repo

Re: Issue with resolving symlinks (realpath, readlink, etc)

2017-12-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 11 18:18, João Eiras wrote: > Hi. > > Programs and functions that rely in realpath() are broken. > > Example: > $ cd > $ ln -s /var symlink > $ cd symlink > $ readlink -m . > /var > $ mkdir subfolder > $ cd subfolder > $ readlink -m . > /home/user/symlink/subfolder > # should be /var/subfo