From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 35555 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2017 01:24:05 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 35496 invoked by uid 89); 5 Dec 2017 01:24:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: Yes, score=5.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,LIKELY_SPAM_SUBJECT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=mintty, vim, bars, H*c:alternative X-HELO: mail-yw0-f178.google.com Received: from mail-yw0-f178.google.com (HELO mail-yw0-f178.google.com) (209.85.161.178) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Dec 2017 01:24:00 +0000 Received: by mail-yw0-f178.google.com with SMTP id y187so7472123ywd.12 for ; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 17:24:00 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:content-language; bh=5VCs5G5HIrJQbXUwOwTeY7H50uWERKdRLBP2uLLnZec=; b=qkrMb7vSu5SDN6iR/iQPbTo4N0FCvXeUrHvLJNiLewP+tuBGom8B/98Sh5Jpiav8II zZRJxTuHsJUuDyZHNz7VrikVw2haS6d/fnyDnK/U/xiAnhvrzXJ5sZ9DLKLmdBz9Wem5 EkJLNYNwdCjPGwron1DsRCOwJ2wkSHX2wJW5oeRL7xZb7VN/sHSqQcL5fKJhhglA1Dcr OCcOZwn8inqGhCcCwtH3SgCHzvqdTh9ku3kPJTjPq/Qw9o1NpORlI5Ehqt2az2wEvlva AMMtONcZB8BqdUilw7rXOTxvOTHuz4+3Be4VchrbHR9+DrNXLAcXbUtUrplL/K+BM5hc 2Vcw== X-Gm-Message-State: AJaThX566+cvwUOh0wsTpe41fGtjv6fmlIO5sJIEgqEvk6Z8zrSrPtMf njAlXsTe5bZFilrbQK2fg08= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMYsq2s2UlmMADY973yjJxmMGMmz1IK7ddPvyYW41J0UVKWOrnlj+t4z0tW8QA4IWT8Ie58IqQ== X-Received: by 10.129.172.25 with SMTP id k25mr11460536ywh.155.1512437039220; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 17:23:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.31] (74-94-185-237-NewEngland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net. [74.94.185.237]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id h6sm2939503ywe.31.2017.12.04.17.23.57 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 04 Dec 2017 17:23:58 -0800 (PST) To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thomas Taylor Subject: Need help with multibyte UTF-8 characters Message-ID: <626a3c06-e9f2-1932-f1f3-47ddb2051215@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 01:24:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2017-12/txt/msg00034.txt.bz2 I want to use multibyte UTF-8 characters in 64-bit Cygwin under Windows 7.  The "vim" editor running in mintty displays the two-byte characters correctly, but not the three- (and I assume four-) byte characters, which instead display as rectangular filled-in blocks.  The "less" program doesn't even display two-byte characters correctly, but instead displays them as to , depending on the character in question, in reverse color in the terminal window.  The "cat" program is even worse, replacing every two-byte character with a character that looks like three horizontal bars stacked one above the other.  I've read the "Internationalization" page in the Cygwin online manual, but am still baffled.  My LANG environment variable is set to "en_US.UTF-8".  Can anyone 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