Internal echo of shell beaves (sometimes) different to external echo

[Ralf]

Andy Koppe <andy.koppe <at> gmail.com> writes:


> 
> It's because setting LC_ALL in a bash script is too late for the bash
> process itself, which will be using the default C.UTF-8 locale unless
> something else is set when bash is invoked.
> 
Now I understand. Setting LC_ALL before calling ttt.sh works:

C:\>set LC_ALL=de_DE
C:\>bash ttt.sh
CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 WIESWEG 1.7.15(0.260/5/3) 2012-05-09 10:25 i686 Cygwin
Rücken
0000000   R   ü   c   k   e   n  \r  \n
0000010
Rücken
0000000   R   ü   c   k   e   n  \n
0000007
Rücken
0000000   R   ü   c   k   e   n  \n
0000007

Thanks!


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