Locales with wrong umlauts

Joshua Daniel Franklin joshuadfranklin@gmail.com
Tue Mar 28 05:43:00 GMT 2006


On 3/26/06, Lapo Luchini  wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, A. Alper Atici wrote:
> >
> > > try the following:
> > > set OUTPUT_CHARSET=iso-8859-1
>
> Instead of putting it simply in some FAQ couldn't Cygwin define that env var
> correctly "by default"? (after all the system *knows* which charset it is using,
> I guess?)

Is this available from some Windows envar or tool? I'm thinking this would
be best in a .profile or even /etc/profile. Unfortunately, I am clueless how
to test it.

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