On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Lapo Luchini wrote: > There never was any ISO-8859-1 "Ť" in the first place, only one > a-umlaut entered in WindowsExplorer (in the expected way) and correctly > interpreted by a UTF8-capable terminal which is doing his job. > > Nobody ever intended to write a Latin1 string with the meaning of > "A-ring + currency symbol" which has been translated by chance in a > a-umlaut...
Yes, but it's working because you (1) lied about your locale (using C when your terminal is set to UTF-8) and (2) happen to have your terminal set to UTF-8, which is how Cygwin happens to be encoding the character. It's a big accident and stops working if you were actually using a non-UTF-8 terminal and locale (hopefully matching ones). -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> -- 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
