On 22 September 2010 00:29, SJ Wright wrote: >> Yes. I noticed where I had the territory mis-cased the next time I ran >> wget. In the line that identified the file and URL for each download, >> double-quotes and other punctuation became garbage characters, where they >> hadn't been when I either had *no* LANG variable set or a correctly-written >> one. So now it's fixed. Thanks again.
If LANG (and also LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE) aren't set, Cygwin defaults to UTF-8. It's better to have it set though, because some programs such as emacs default to plain ol' ASCII if the locale isn't set. That's why LANG is set to C.UTF-8 during login shell startup (by /etc/defaults/etc/profile.d/lang.sh). In other words, you shouldn't have to worry about it. > Spoke too soon on the wget matter. Since setting a LANG variable in the > first place (and evidently the right place, or else this wouldn't be a > "matter"), I've been seeing garbage text -- I prefer to call it "drone text" > -- in place of quotation marks during normal (non-verbose and not set to > "quiet") downloads. Here's a sample: >> >> Saving to: “gae77-7748-244-958stck.jpg†That looks like wget is using UTF-8 yet your terminal is using ISO-8859-1. The Cygwin console as well as all the terminals shipped with Cygwin (except for rxvt) use UTF-8 by default. With other terminals, you might have to select it somewhere in their options. 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
