mintty - char encoding problems

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Fri Feb 19 19:59:00 GMT 2010


On 02/19/2010 02:39 PM, David Balažic wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have few days old setup of cygwin on WinXP.
> I also installed mintty.
>
> I worked fine on one user account, which is a member of the
> Administrators group.
>
> Today I started mintty under another, not admin, user, and got this:
>
> »./.bashrc« ->  »/home/work//.bashrc«
> »./.bash_profile« ->  »/home/work//.bash_profile«
> »./.inputrc« ->  »/home/work//.inputrc«
>
> I also can not type certain non-ascii chars, that worked fine in the
> first user, like čšž.
> Now they appear on the bach command line as c ( š and ž don't appear at all).
>
> Any idea what is wrong?

What are your character set and locale settings for the other user?

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