incorrect text mode graphic character display

[briand@pounceofcats.com]

On Thu, 7 May 2020 20:19:29 +0000
André Bleau via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:

> Brian wrote:
> ________________________________________
> 
> > Assuming Julia is a not Cygwin program,
> > you can try "CYGWIN=disable_pcon" before any Cygwin process  
> 
> Did not help.
> 
> Thanks for that though, I had no idea those kind of env variables were available.
> 
> Brian
> ________________________________________
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> Character display problems do not depend only on the program you run, in your case, "Julia", whatever that is, but also in 
> which terminal or console you run it, as it is the terminal that does the actual character display. If you run in in mintty for 
> example, you could try:
> 
> CYGWIN=disable_pcon /usr/bin/mintty
> 
> and run Julia in the just opened mintty. I just happened to have a similar issue. If interested, look at:
> 
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-May/244742.html
> 

Hi, 

Julia is a programming language and what i've shown is the REPL for it.  I tried precisely what you showed there and it makes no difference at all.  I get the exact same display.

Humorously, it displays just fine in a windows cmd terminal.