From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8050 invoked by alias); 23 Sep 2009 09:04:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 8038 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Sep 2009 09:04:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:04:43 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MqNmC-0001sf-M5 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:04:40 +0200 Received: from r5bl15.net.upc.cz ([86.49.71.15]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:04:40 +0200 Received: from thorsten by r5bl15.net.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:04:40 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: The C locale Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:04:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <416096c60908300959i1e0084b1xc8f6e65e792b035d@mail.gmail.com> <3f0ad08d0909020656v7d9fce6ft4afea63ed363b9a9@mail.gmail.com> <416096c60909071308qc5ff057sbe9cb1dbc270554f@mail.gmail.com> <20090908193456.GC17515@calimero.vinschen.de> <416096c60909081449r1fe024dbm7b82a3719be05e9e@mail.gmail.com> <20090921103758.GE20981@calimero.vinschen.de> <416096c60909211420g4ac8ea93l80fc1f00dcd5c0f3@mail.gmail.com> <416096c60909212347r7e03a4f3q7d518ff7e8bce55d@mail.gmail.com> <416096c60909220549jaa601d9l26621e9910136a3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.12 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00574.txt.bz2 * Lapo Luchini (Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:11:48 +0200) > > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Lapo Luchini (Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:26:32 +0200) > >> But cmd.exe isn't even capable of printing the Euro sign (no cygwin > >> involved, I mean the plain Windows Prompt), I guess there's no hope to > >> ever seeing in there anything but a very limited output... (which > >> surprises me a bit: Euro sign is present in CP1252) > > > > Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600] > > Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. > > > > thorsten@HOMBRE[C:\Users\thorsten]> echo € > > € > > > > thorsten@HOMBRE[C:\Users\thorsten]> chcp > > Active code page: 437 > > OK, so it *can* display it. > But why it does not, when showing a filename? > (which was what I did in the previous message to check) > > http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7821/winprompt.png > > I created a file "aà€?.txt" in WinExplorer, and then: > > C:\>dir *.txt > Volume in drive C is Primary > Volume Serial Number is 8437-B5FC > > Directory of C:\ > > 23/09/2009 06.58 0 aà??.txt > 1 File(s) 0 bytes Works for me, too. Maybe not only the codepage but also the GUI locale settings are involved. This is on Windows 7. Thorsten -- 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