Re: Need help with multibyte UTF-8 characters

[Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>]

Hi Brian,

Am 13.12.2017 um 06:21 schrieb Brian Inglis:
> On 2017-12-04 18:23, Thomas Taylor wrote:
>> 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 <A1> to <FF>, 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?
> Your Windows Regional settings and your mintty/Options/Text/Language and
> Character Set should be set to match.
> The profile commands below set Cygwin locale to your Windows Regional settings
> and charset to UTF-8, or Unix locale to your system locale.
> Otherwise your system or mintty is going to be doing conversions on each character.
I am not aware that mintty character display and Windows regional 
settings would interfere in any way you indicated.
Can you elaborate on this please?
Thomas

> # Set user-defined locale
> locale -fU > /dev/null 2>&1     \
>          && LC_ALL=$(locale -fU) \
>          || LC_ALL=$(locale |    \
>                  sed '/^LANG=\|^LC_CTYPE=\|^LC_ALL=/{s///;h};$!d;x;s/"//g')
>


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