From: "Миронов Леонид Владимирович" <lv.mironov@severstal.com>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: getclip and putclip garble unicode characters
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:00:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7597576edad43a1ae1a8a37ab47bd62@severstal.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1442655532.20210624093554@yandex.ru>
As far as copying from cygwin to windows is concerned, it happens in exactly the same way in all windows programs I tried pasting data to - word, outlook, chrome, console, you name it. Changing windows keyboard language has no effect either, windows still stubbornly treats clipboard contents as cp1252 (don't quite see how it is supposed to help - data on the clipboard is not limited to one single-byte codepage anyway).
At first I missed that when copying from windows to cygwin getclip actually gets data in cp1251 (windows ANSI codepage), thus cyrillic characters can be at least recovered with iconv, but non-cyrillic non-latin characters - e.g. greek, are replaced with question marks and are lost although in windows everything can be pasted back without issues, again regardless of the program and keyboard language.
So in a nutshell, when copy-pasting from cygwin putclip to windows unicode is treated as cp1252 while copy-pasting from windows to cygwin getclip unicode is treated as cp1251.
Sorry for top-posting.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:36 AM
To: Миронов Леонид Владимирович <lv.mironov@severstal.com>; cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: getclip and putclip garble unicode characters
Greetings, Миронов Леонид Владимирович!
> getclip and putclip from cygutils-extra garble unicode characters:
> non-latin characters copied to clipboard in windows are replaced with
> question marks when retrieved with getclip in cygwin, and non-latin
> characters copied to clipboard using putclip are pasted it in windows
> looking like utf-8 displayed in cp1252 but can be retrieved with
> getclip exactly as pasted, so it looks like the problem is not in the
> way the data is copied but in the way cygwin and windows communicate
> text encoding to each other. LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8, windows ANSI codepage is set to cp1251 - 1251, not 1252.
This looks like you are using a program incapable of dealing with unicode clipboard. To achieve better results, switch your input language/keyboard to matching language before copying text from application. I.e. switch to Russian then copy text, then check what is returned by getclip.
But then, why LC_CTYPE is en_US?
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, June 24, 2021 9:33:54
Sorry for my terrible english...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-25 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-23 13:45 Миронов Леонид Владимирович
2021-06-23 22:27 ` Mark Geisert
2021-07-05 10:04 ` Mark Geisert
2021-06-24 6:35 ` Andrey Repin
2021-06-25 9:00 ` Миронов Леонид Владимирович [this message]
2021-06-25 18:01 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-06-25 18:54 ` Brian Inglis
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