How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?

Niklaus Kuehnis kuehnik_0505@gmx-topmail.de
Fri Jan 15 10:15:00 GMT 2010


Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
> On Jan 12 15:59, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am
 >> unable to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German
 >> umlauts) from commandline.
> 
> Did you read the User's Guide, especially
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html
> ?

I've now read that page. As UTF-8 is generally the preferred charset, I 
would like to stick to it. Does changing the language, e.g. to de_CH, 
change umlaut handling? It doesn't seem to, here.

Best wishes,
Niklaus

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