incorrect text mode graphic character display

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 09.05.2020 um 08:32 schrieb Marco Atzeri via Cygwin:
> Am 08.05.2020 um 22:14 schrieb briand@pounceofcats.com:
>> On Fri, 8 May 2020 20:41:55 +0200
>> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Am 07.05.2020 um 17:18 schrieb briand@pounceofcats.com:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't matter what terminal i'm using, I'm having a problem with 
>>>> the way graphic characters print.
>>>> Julia uses unicode output, and will generate output that should 
>>>> look like this:
>>>>    julia> x=DataFrame([(1,2,3), (4,5,6)])
>>>> 2×3 DataFrame
>>>> │ Row │ 1     │ 2     │ 3     │
>>>> │     │ Int64 │ Int64 │ Int64 │
>>>> ├─────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
>>>> │ 1   │ 1     │ 2     │ 3     │
>>>> │ 2   │ 4     │ 5     │ 6     │
>>>>
>>>
>>> it works fine for me with
>>> $ uname -svr
>>> CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.1.4(0.340/5/3) 2020-02-19 08:49
>>>
>>> both on CMD console and Mintty
>>> without need to disable pcon
>>>
>>> julia> using DataFrames
>>>
>>> julia> x=DataFrame([(1,2,3), (4,5,6)])
>>> 2×3 DataFrame
>>> │ Row │ 1     │ 2     │ 3     │
>>> │     │ Int64 │ Int64 │ Int64 │
>>> ├─────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
>>> │ 1   │ 1     │ 2     │ 3     │ │ 2   │ 4     │ 5     │ 6 │
>>>
>>> what type of locale are you using ?
>>> $ echo $LANG
>>> en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> yes, that's the locale
>>
>
> so it is not the DLL alone and it is not the locale
> that is causing the problem you see.
>
> Please provide the cygcheck.out as attachment
> https://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
> Which version of Julia are you running ?
> How are you running Julia?
> Do you have any custom user setup in Julia?
> I just installed it and only installed the DataFrames package.
Julia had a patch to enable UTF-8 output via Windows output functions in 
previous cygwin versions.
I remember the details only vaguely right now, but it may be necessary 
to remove that patch for cygwin from 3.1.0, or it might cause some kind 
of double transformation.
Thomas