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Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?


On Jan 15 11:08, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
> >On Jan 12 15:59, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am
> >> unable to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German
> >> umlauts) from commandline.
> >
> >Did you read the User's Guide, especially
> >http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html
> >?
> 
> I've now read that page. As UTF-8 is generally the preferred
> charset, I would like to stick to it. Does changing the language,
> e.g. to de_CH, change umlaut handling? It doesn't seem to, here.

It does, though.  If you read the page you have learned that setting
LANG to just a language (de_CH), without a charset (.UTF-8) will set the
character set to the Windows codepage which is the default ANSI codepage
on your machine.  In your case this is probably CP1252.  If you want to
be sure to use UTF-8, then say so:  export LANG=de_CH.UTF-8.


Corinna

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