Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.6.1-1

[Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 23:49:16, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Both of which run under the cmd console

No, they dont. They both run under the Console Window Host.

> You can look up which characters are displayed using Alt-numpad-digits 
> at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 or in the selected code 
> page using Alt-numpad-0-digits at Code_page_nnn or Windows_nnnn.

Why do I need to do this? I already know that it is capital omega.

> On top of that is added the Windows locale mapping to Cygwin locale and 
> character set, plus readline settings used by bash in ~/.inputrc, which 
> may change input interpretation.

Again, did you try this or are you just guessing? If so what inputrc value needs
to be set?

> Type locale to see what locale Cygwin thinks you are running.
> Documentation available is at: 
> 	https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html
> which documents the default as C.UTF-8 (ASCII) unless LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, 
> or LANG env vars are set to change the locale and/or char set.

Again, did you try this or are you just guessing? If so what value needs to be
set?

> You may have to chcp n in Cygwin.bat to get correct character output, 
> either 437 for US, 850 for English, 65001 for UTF-8, others from 
> above reference for other locales and char sets.

Again, no because cmd.exe works fine even with 437.

> It is an alternative input method for Unicode characters which does 
> not seem to be supported with bash under cmd configured with default 
> code pages, but is in mintty and elsewhere in Windows, which avoids 
> having to pop up CharMap and search when you know the Unicode code 
> point wanted.

Again, hex input is not needed, cmd.exe handles Alt-decimal just fine.

> Most Windows monospace fonts do not support most new Unicode characters, 
> but fallback fonts can be configured in the registry to provide missing 
> glyphs, given available fonts which support the glyphs, and code page 
> 65001/char set UTF-8 which supports the Unicode character set.

Again, no font is needed as this character is already supported though existing
fonts.

> Mea culpa, having configured everything I can in Windows, Cygwin, and 
> apps to support Unicode/UTF-8 character sets, with appropriate fonts 
> and fallbacks, I forget the limitations and problems with OEM code 
> pages which caused me to make that effort, indeed that people, apps, 
> or systems still use those code pages implicitly.

Somehow you managed to make a nearly 400 word reply without adding anything to
your previous post. I am actually impressed. Please going forward post
suggestions that you have actually tried and fix the problem at hand, thank you.


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