Sven Köhler wrote: > is it just me, or does cygwin 1.7 return a utf8 encoded strings for > filenames and the like? > > I wonder, because rxvt and xterm show two strange characters for each > german umlaut when I use "ls -la" or the like. > > Well, I don't think that rxvt will ever work, because it doesn't support > unicode. And there doesn't seems to be a non-X11 version of rxvt-unicode.
rxvt won't work well in the future with cygwin-1.5, unless you explicitly set the encoding/charset to something like '$lang.ASCII' or '$lang.iso-8859-1', I think. This is unavoidable, given that rxvt is unmaintained upstream, and doesn't support the necessary constructs to work well in modern i18n systems. For X, use rxvt-unicode instead. For non-X, use mintty. cygwin's plain rxvt will continue to be maintained, but I expect its usefulness will be limited on cygwin-1.7, especially for those who use $lang other than 'en_US' (even 'en_GB' will have difficulty on rxvt with the Euro and Pound symbols). > But I would expect, that xterm works. But it doesn't. > The default-encoding, that cygwin returns, seems not to be utf8. > I have didn't experiment with setting the LANG variable yet. Things are still in flux, in cygwin-1.5. See the current thread 'The C Locale' on this list (go check the archive). Also, there have been A LOT of discussions about this over the past week on the cygwin-developers list. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-09/ > I'm curious what going on and how the upcoming cygwin 1.7 will be like. > Is there some information about it on the net? Look at the cygwin-announce list, read the posts concerning the various cygwin-1.7 beta releases, and follow the embedded links. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-07/msg00012.html http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html And next time, look in the mailing list archives and the cygwin webpage -- before asking questions that are prominently answered or discussed already in these obvious places. *However*, I admit that the most recent cygwin-1.7 test release announcements (-52 ... -61) have not included the 'what's changed' link. -- Chuck -- 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
