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Re: LC_ALL=ru_RU.cp1251 ls -l encoding problem.
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 11:07:51 +0200
- Subject: Re: LC_ALL=ru_RU.cp1251 ls -l encoding problem.
- References: <i60mpv$c76$1@dough.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sep 5 21:16, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> As you can see user/group always printed in UTF-8
> and discard LC_ALL=cp1251.
>
> $ LC_ALL=ru_RU.cp1251 mintty
The problem is, what is the encoding of the /etc/passwd file itself?
If it's UTF-8, it's UTF-8. If you want to use another encoding
throughout, you would have to generate the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
files in that other encoding as well.
Corinna
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