[1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-45

[Thomas Wolff]

[Should I have responded to cygwin-announce? Not sure.]

Corinna Vinschen wrote on cygwin-announce:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-45.
>
> ...
>
>
> What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-44
> ===================================
>
> - A lot of character sets are supported now via a call to setlocale().
>   The setting of the environment variables $LANG, $LC_ALL or $LC_CTYPE will
>   be used.  For instance, setting $LANG to "de_DE.ISO-8859-15" before
>   starting a Cygwin session will use the ISO-8859-15 character set in
>   the entire session.  UTF-8 is supported as well, as in "en_US.UTF-8".
>
>   Along these lines, the "CYGWIN=codepage:{ansi,oem}" setting has been
>   removed in favor of using $LANG, $LC_ALL, or $LC_CTYPE.
>   
This is a great step. However, there is a problem. Until 1.7.0-44, the 
terminal encoding was maintained transparently into a remote session,
so that if you rlogin somewhere else, you would have the same encoding as
configured in the cygwin console. This worked nicely with all three 
available encodings, the default (CP1252), codepage:oem and codepage:utf8.
(For most situations, you would still have to set LC_ variables explicitly 
on the remote system; well, most remote systems would not have CPxxx 
locale data but that's a different issue.)

Now with 1.7.0-45, after remote login, the encoding is always just 
ISO-8859-1, while of course, if I have a UTF-8 terminal, I want to take 
this over to the remote system. Maybe it's some interworking problem 
with the new cygwin dll and the old rlogin.exe?
Until 1.7.0-44, even something like the following worked:
Inside a default cygwin console (or a codepage:oem) console, you could type
	CYGWIN=codepage:utf8 rlogin ...
and get a UTF-8 remote terminal environment. Now, no attempt to 
establish that seems to work anymore.

I would appreciate if this can be resolved,
Kind regards,
Thomas

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