* 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. > > > > thors...@hombre[c:\Users\thorsten]> echo € > > € > > > > thors...@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
