>2009/12/28 Andy Koppe: >... >Ah, the problem actually is that your program is missing a call to >setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to switch to the locale and character set >specified in the environment...
That worked!, but what that means is that if one wants to use any locale other than C.UTF-8, one has, not only to compile again the programs , but also to modify them. Perhaps the best thing to do is to read the LC_ALL variable from the environment and then call setlocale. Thanks RM -- 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