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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin fails to utilize Unicode replacement character
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 19:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180901194005.GO6350@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b8aba97.1c69fb81.96f14.1b37@mx.google.com>

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On Sep  1 09:13, Steven Penny wrote:
> Using this file:
> 
>    $ printf '\353\n' > alfa.txt
> 
>    $ iconv -f CP1252 alfa.txt
>    ë
> 
> You get this result with Linux:
> 
>    $ cat alfa.txt
>    �
> 
> Where "cat" properly outputs Unicode 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' (U+FFFD). However
> with Cygwin you get this:
> 
>    $ cat alfa.txt
>    ▒
> 
> Where "cat" outputs Unicode Character 'MEDIUM SHADE' (U+2592).

I changed it in Cygwin for the console window.  For mintty this would
have to be changed in mintty itself.


Corinna

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-01 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-01 16:13 Steven Penny
2018-09-01 18:11 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-01 18:46   ` Steven Penny
2018-09-01 21:07     ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-01 19:40 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2018-09-01 21:50 ` Doug Henderson
2018-09-01 22:49   ` Steven Penny
2018-09-02  8:07     ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-02 12:51       ` Steven Penny
2018-09-03 12:46         ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-03 14:59           ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-03 16:34             ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-03 17:17               ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-03 17:56                 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-03 18:20                   ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-03 19:14                     ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-03 20:27                       ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-03 20:42                         ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-03 21:03                           ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-03 22:15                             ` Steven Penny
2018-09-04  6:06                               ` Brian Inglis
2018-09-04  9:00                               ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-04 11:40                                 ` Steven Penny
2018-09-05  7:55                                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-05  9:22                                     ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-05 11:58                                     ` Steven Penny
2018-09-05 13:18                                       ` Marco Atzeri
2018-09-05 15:20                                         ` Andrey Repin
2018-09-05 15:58                                         ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-05 20:15                                           ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-06  1:35                                             ` Steven Penny
2018-09-06  7:01                                               ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-07  8:20                                                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-07 10:34                                                   ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-07 11:29                                                     ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-07 11:42                                                       ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-07 11:51                                                         ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-07 11:54                                                           ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-07 16:22                                                             ` Brian Inglis
2018-09-07 16:48                                                             ` Brian Inglis
2018-09-07 17:01                                                               ` Marco Atzeri
2018-09-07 18:21                                                                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-07 18:20                                                               ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-05 13:35                                       ` Andrey Repin
2018-09-05 14:04                                         ` Houder
2018-09-05 15:05                                           ` Andrey Repin
2018-09-04 12:50                                 ` David Macek
2018-09-04 14:18                                   ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-04 14:46                                     ` David Macek
2018-09-04 18:20                                     ` Steven Penny
2018-09-04 18:41                                       ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-04 19:50                                         ` Andrey Repin
2018-09-04 19:53                                         ` Steven Penny
2018-09-04 21:43                                           ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-04 23:29                                             ` Steven Penny
2018-09-04 20:40                                       ` Brian Inglis
2018-09-05  8:32                                         ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-04 13:05                                 ` Andrey Repin
2018-10-04  0:25                               ` Steven Penny
2018-09-03 16:05         ` Brian Inglis
2018-09-04 19:59 ` Doug Henderson
2018-09-04 21:05   ` Steven Penny

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