From: cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Need help with multibyte UTF-8 characters
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <99c5d791-17fb-3fce-266b-99bc4b4dd92b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8d811915-176f-c9f5-6500-364e494142f7@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
On 12/13/2017 11:40 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2017-12-13 00:50, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Am 13.12.2017 um 06:21 schrieb Brian Inglis:
>>> On 2017-12-04 18:23, Thomas Taylor wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> Maybe I'm just too optimistic that software will DTRT to ensure that output is
> faithfully passed thru, or converted for the next layer of software, if it has
> different settings.
> I set all of my locales the same so characters should pass thru transparently
> and I can see output faithfully rendered, given adequate font configurations.
>
> What happens when your system, terminal, and shell locales and charsets differ?
> Either some component/-s has/have to do conversion to provide readable output,
> which is my expectation given the requirement to specify locales and charsets,
> or you could end up with garbled output if nothing is doing any conversion.
> Does one override others to pass thru readable output, does conversion occur, or
> do you just see junk in some or all cases when locales and charsets differ?
>
> I am ignoring here the effect on text content, input and output formatting of
> selecting languages, territories, and scripts.
>
For my working environment I need Cygwin and Windows to be different. I
have other requirements for en_US.UTF-8 within the Windows environment.
I use Netbeans IDE and it allows me to set the locale per project. It
doesn't matter what the OS level states; that is just the default.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-14 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-05 1:24 Thomas Taylor
2017-12-05 3:48 ` Brian Inglis
2017-12-12 3:43 ` Thomas Taylor
2017-12-12 20:00 ` Doug Henderson
2017-12-12 20:17 ` Thomas Taylor
2017-12-14 19:50 ` Andrey Repin
2017-12-15 2:51 ` Brian Inglis
2017-12-16 1:50 ` Thomas Wolff
2017-12-13 3:06 ` Thomas Wolff
2017-12-14 19:32 ` Brian Inglis
2017-12-13 13:07 ` Brian Inglis
2017-12-13 13:28 ` Thomas Wolff
2017-12-14 1:15 ` cyg Simple
2017-12-14 7:36 ` Brian Inglis
2017-12-14 16:21 ` Thomas Wolff
2017-12-14 18:09 ` cyg Simple
2017-12-14 19:20 ` Thomas Wolff
2017-12-14 16:55 ` cyg Simple [this message]
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