Encoding of German 'umlauts' - please explain

[Ronald Fischer]

Maybe someone could enlighten me about the following:

On Cygwin bash I see

$ echo ü | od -cx
0000000 374  \n
        0afc
0000002

That means, the German letter ü has encoding 0xFC. If I do the same on CMD shell
(the 'od' used here comes from the Gnu Utilities for Windows), I see:

  echo ü | od -cx
0000000 201      \r  \n
        2081 0a0d
0000004

That is, ü is encoded as 0x81. Why is this different?

I am aware that, for historic reason, different encodings exist (the old
DOS encoding, Windows ANSI encoding etc.). I wouldn't have expected those
differences, however, when comparing bash.exe vs. cmd.exe.



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