I have (BOM-less) UTF-8 text files that I can read fine in Cygwin, but not Windows. When I create text files in Windows containing non-ASCII characters, I cannot read them in Cygwin. I understand why, but wondering the best way to be able to share text files across the two environments.
I'm pretty sure that I want to keep my Cygwin LANG=C.UTF-8 setting, but wondering what I can do on the Windows side for compatibility and what are the side effects. Currently Windows's Command Prompt command chcp shows "Active code page: 437". (Is that obsolete or even relevant?) One solution seems to be to put a BOM in each UTF-8 text file; then the files read fine in both environments, but that's not conveniently accomplished. --Ken Nellis -- 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
