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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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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