On Sep 25 14:50, Thomas Wolff wrote: > 2009/9/23 Corinna Vinschen: > > Right now, if you switch the charset via the setlocale function, you > > also switch the charset used for console output. > > Andy wrote: > > That's quite a unique advantage of the Cygwin console actually, > > because it means you always get correct output even if you switch > > charset on the fly. > It might be considered an advantage but the fact that it is unique > also means it is absolutely not portable. > [...]
Any reason you redirected your reply to the cygwin list? It doesn't make much sense to disuss this in two lists and it's breaking the threading on the cygwin-developers list for no apparent reason. Please resend your reply to the cygwin-developers list, into the right thread. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
