Fwd: Fw: no cyrillic fonts in windows 2000

[Kuz'ma 725]

Shouldn't have used Outlook... the first string Îêóäæà âà , the second one is 
éöóêöóø.  Sorry again.

>Sorry, those should be cyrillic strings, the first one is Окуджава, 
>the
>second one is йцукцуш :)
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "kuzma725" <kuzma725@hotmail.com>
>To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 1:06 PM
>Subject: Re: no cyrillic fonts in windows 2000
>
>
> > Igor, I have another question for you.  Maybe this should be addressed 
>to
> > another list, but I figured you might know the answer.. hope this is not
>too
> > off-topic.  I have an TCL script that I run using Expect from Cygwin.  
>It
> > used to work fine, but one day something happened that messed it up, and 
>I
> > can't figure out what it is.  Here's an 3-line version of the script,
> > demonstrating the problem, that you will understand even if you don't 
>know
> > TCL or Expect:
> >
> > #!/bin/tclsh
> > set author [lindex $argv 0]
> > puts #$author#
> >
> > All this does is print to the standard output the first parameter to the
> > script from the command line.  When I run the script (testCyr.tcl) with 
>a
> > cyrillic parameter:
> >
> > expect testCyr.tcl ????????
> >
> > I am expecting this output:
> >
> > #????????#
> >
> > but instead get:
> >
> > #???????
> >
> > and no error messages.  But some cyrillic strings, such as "???????" 
>work
> > fine, as well as any latin string.  Any ideas?  I am positive that it
>worked
> > before!
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yury
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
> > To: "Kuz'ma 725" <kuzma725@hotmail.com>
> > Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 11:38 AM
> > Subject: Re: no cyrillic fonts in windows 2000
> >
> >
> > > Yury,
> > >
> > > Please keep replies on the list, so that people searching the archives
> > > later can find out whether a particular method worked or not.  Also, 
>as
> > > the underlined header field below indicates, I prefer to read the
> > > responses on the list.
> > >
> > > Glad it worked for you.
> > > Igor
> > >
> > > On Tue, 13 May 2003, Kuz'ma 725 wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks Igor, that was it.  I'll check the faq more carefully next
>time.
> > > > Yury
> > > >
> > > > >From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
> > > > >Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > >    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > >To: "Kuz'ma 725" <kuzma725@hotmail.com>
> > > > >CC: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > > > >Subject: Re: no cyrillic fonts in windows 2000
> > > > >Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 12:19:31 -0400 (EDT)
> > > > >
> > > > >On Tue, 13 May 2003, Kuz'ma 725 wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I have 2 installations of Win2K, and I was able to somehow get
> > cygwin to
> > > > > > display cyrillic input from the keyboard (although it still 
>shows
> > cyrillic
> > > > > > filenames as ?s)... but I forgot how I did it!  I have the 
>latest
> > > > > > XFree86-fcyr package (4.2.0-2) installed in both places and the
>same
> > > > > > settings in Windows' Regional Options - English (United States) 
>as
> > my locale
> > > > > > (location), Cyrillic/Russian as default System Locale, in 
>Advanced
>I
> > checked
> > > > > > all the fonts that have anything to do with cyrillic, and 
>Russian
> > and
> > > > > > English keyboard locales.  Any suggestions?  This is driving me
> > crazy!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks in advance
> > > > >
> > > > >Which program are you talking about here?  If it's a bash console
> > window,
> > > > >the X fonts will not affect it -- you have to select a Windows font
>in
> > > > >Properties that has cyrillic characters in it.  If it's rxvt or
>xterm,
> > > > >then indeed you'll have to use the X fonts (at least in the X mode 
>of
> > > > >rxvt).
> > > > >
> > > > >Furthermore, are you talking about *displaying* cyrillic 
>characters,
>or
> > > > >*inputting* them?  If the former, try "cat"ting a file containing
>those
> > > > >characters and if that doesn't work properly, look at the first
> > paragraph
> > > > >above.  If the latter, see <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC49>.
> > > > > Igor
> > > > >P.S. For the "ls" problem, try the --show-control-chars parameter.
>;-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
> > >       |\      _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
> > > ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com
> > >      |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-' Igor Pechtchanski
> > >     '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!
> > >
> > > Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
> > >   -- Leto II
> > >
> > >
> >

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