Thank you Andy, you are right. I tried the following, they all shown something instead of empty/white-spaces 1. added 'chcp 850' in cygwin.bat file (before bash log, 2. put gwin window into full-screen mode(Alt+Enter) 3. changed the font of Cygwin window to 'New SimSun'
Andy Koppe wrote: > > 2009/12/14 LiuYan 刘研: >> >> The only unexpected thing is the empty output of GBK-encoded chinese >> characters when LANG is xxxx.UTF-8. >> >> I mean it should display something visible(malformed characters, squares >> or >> whatever visible characters) regardless the LANG setting. >> >> echo -e "Chinese characters in GBK encoding: [\xba\xba\xd7\xd6] -- >> Output >> will be [ ] in Cygwin 1.7" > > I'm getting: > > $ echo -e "Chinese characters in GBK encoding: [\xba\xba\xd7\xd6]" > Chinese characters in GBK encoding: [▒▒▒▒] > > (In case they don't show up, that's four grey blocks in the brackets, > representing invalid UTF-8 bytes.) > > Same both with the default raster font and with Lucida Console. With > the default raster font, the output is limited to your console > codepage, which may not have that replacement character, so try it > with a different font that puts the console into Unicode mode. > > Andy > > -- > 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 > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Cygwin-1.7%3A-Empty-white-space-output-when-display-Chinese-characters-in-GBK-charset-encoding--tp26774467p26779901.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.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
