Re: codepage translation of environment

On Mar 8 09:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In codepage 1252 (latin1) character 0xe4 represents the umlaut a!! > In codepage 850 character 0xa4 represents the umlaut a!! > > Why do cygwin this conversion? http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM, I guess! > I did some test using the CYGWIN environment va

codepage translation of environment

Hello all, why is the environment converted to another codepage! I'm using newest cygwin version 1.5.13! Here just an example: I'm in an standard cmd.exe and set the environment variable ZZ to 1ÃÃÃ2 set ZZ=1ÃÃÃ2 I did several test using the small program getEnv.exe (source code see