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Re: default codepage
Eric Blake wrote:
> >
> > > But wait - yet here's my question: Why is there a difference between
> > > bash --login
> > > and
> > > bash
> > > - where in the latter case CP1252 (or the default ANSI codepage)
> > > *is* still the default?
>
> It must be that one of your startup scripts is changing the locale environment
> variables, where --login pulls in a different set of startup scripts than
> regular shells. Check the values of LANG, LC_ALL, and friends between your two
> shells. And use 'bash -vx --login' to spot where it was changed.
None of LANG or LC_* are set in both cases (could have mentioned that before).
Also, if I move away .profile and .bashrc for a test run, the difference remains.
If you have any other suggestions to test this weird issue, maybe a cygwin
debug flag or test version, I'll try again next week.
Thomas
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