Instead of a gripe, a memory-jog.

[SJ Wright]

Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 22 September 2010 00:29, SJ Wright wrote:
>   
>>> Yes. I noticed where I had the territory mis-cased the next time I ran
>>> wget. In the line that identified the file and URL for each download,
>>> double-quotes and other punctuation became garbage characters, where they
>>> hadn't been when I either had *no* LANG variable set or a correctly-written
>>> one. So now it's fixed. Thanks again.
>>>       
>
> If LANG (and also LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) aren't set, Cygwin defaults to
> UTF-8. It's better to have it set though, because some programs such
> as emacs default to plain ol' ASCII if the locale isn't set. That's
> why LANG is set to C.UTF-8 during login shell startup (by
> /etc/defaults/etc/profile.d/lang.sh). In other words, you shouldn't
> have to worry about it.
>
>   
>> Spoke too soon on the wget matter. Since setting a LANG variable in the
>> first place (and evidently the right place, or else this wouldn't be a
>> "matter"), I've been seeing garbage text -- I prefer to call it "drone text"
>> -- in place of quotation marks during normal (non-verbose and not set to
>> "quiet") downloads. Here's a sample:
>>     
>>> Saving to: “gae77-7748-244-958stck.jpgâ€
>>>       
>
> That looks like wget is using UTF-8 yet your terminal is using
> ISO-8859-1. The Cygwin console as well as all the terminals shipped
> with Cygwin (except for rxvt) use UTF-8 by default. With other
> terminals, you might have to select it somewhere in their options.
>
> Andy
>
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>   
Well, my LANG is C.UTF-8, and the garbage in wget turned back into 
single- and double-quotes as soon as I added the command to .wgetrc I 
mentioned.  So it turns out, at least in my case, that 
"local_encoding=UTF-8" does something positive with how commands/running 
task steps are displayed. This was, coincidentally, in rxvt that all of 
this was happening. I've yet to try it in MinTTY. I don't expect much of 
a difference: these are 'peripheral' variables set and if a UTF-8 works 
from two directions in a term that isn't built to like it, then 'how 
much better should it be in one that does?' is not even a question worth 
asking, imo.

Steve W


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