From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26896 invoked by alias); 13 Sep 2009 03:08:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 26888 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Sep 2009 03:08:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:08:03 +0000 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E5D169AC0; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:08:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:08:01 -0400 Received: from [111.84.98.124] (unknown [111.84.98.124]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 9DA1E6A2ED for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:07:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4AAC6200.4010301@fmail.co.uk> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:08:00 -0000 From: Kit Johnson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin Digest 10 Sep 2009 16:45:51 -0000 Issue 6623 References: <416096c60909111156s497eff82y42ac6e0e234b4efc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <416096c60909111156s497eff82y42ac6e0e234b4efc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00271.txt.bz2 > However, since presumably you're using a Thai version of Windows, you > might have more success with trying different fonts. > Actually I'm using a normal version of windows. I've never seen anyone use a Thai version...perhaps it's not available. > If not, you should try the 'mintty' terminal instead of the standard > Cygwin console. This definitely does support Thai characters and is > able to use a greater range of fonts than the console. > > The stable version 0.4.4 can be installed through Cygwin's setup.exe, > but version 0.5 makes it much easier to set up the locale and > character set. Choose them on the 'Text' pane of its options dialog, > and the LANG variable will be set accordingly. Mintty 0.5-beta2 is > available from http://mintty.googlecode.com. > That's done the trick, and was very easy and user-friendly. I can even type in Thai! Good idea to add /bin to the windows Path variable; I hadn't thought of that. I love the transparency too! Thanks so much for your help. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple