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Re: 1.5.25-15: Why my $INITRC "set convert-meta off" seems to fail?
On Jul 27 11:02, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/7/27 Rodion Gorkovenko:
> > You suppose this is windows, who responsible for this substitution? This thought had not visited my head... I thought substitution is performed by cygwin...
>
> It's done by the Windows text rendering functions. It's fairly useful
> actually as a fallback, because at least you end up with something
> readable.
>
>
> > As I wrote earlier, I preset proper codepage in windows console (by mode con cp select=1251 or 866 or 437 at last) - and when I am trying to view file, written in CP1251 by
> >
> > cp msg.txt con - then I view it all right,
> > but with
> > cp msg.txt /dev/tty - I view it as a sequence of "aaeieii?oeiaaaieieia"
>
> Right. It would appear that /dev/tty assumes the text is in ISO-8859-1
> or CP1252 and sends it to the console as such. But since the console
> is set to 1251, Windows' substitution mechanism kicks in and replaces
> anything that looks like an 'A' in 1252 with ASCII 'A', as that
> displays correctly in 1251.
>
> Possible solutions:
> 1. Change the system-wide non-Unicode codepage setting in the
> Regional&Languages control panel.
> 2. Set the console codepage before invoking bash in cygwin.bat.
> 3. Use MinTTY and set the codepage you want on the "Text" page of its
> options dialog.
> 4. Install Cygwin 1.7 and use the locale mechanism documented at
> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html
Back in 1.5.25, what about CYGWIN=codepage:oem? See the old User's
Guide at http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
Corinna
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