Re: scp and cygwin randomly and automatically converts text files from utf-8 to windows encoding (cp1251)

ations. Sorry, that turned up the wrong. Thanks. Andy Koppe wrote: > > On 31 August 2010 20:23, rPman wrote: >> It happens when files are copied from cygwin windows machines to any >> linux >> (tried different versions of ubuntu and gentoo with utf-8 locale). > > C

scp and cygwin randomly and automatically converts text files from utf-8 to windows encoding (cp1251)

It happens when files are copied from cygwin windows machines to any linux (tried different versions of ubuntu and gentoo with utf-8 locale). As it is not possible to understand in what cases are re-encoding, sometimes enough to add one blank line in a text file that, when the transfer encoding ha