On 12/13/2017 11:40 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2017-12-13 00:50, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Am 13.12.2017 um 06:21 schrieb Brian Inglis: >>> On 2017-12-04 18:23, Thomas Taylor wrote: >>> Your Windows Regional settings and your mintty/Options/Text/Language and >>> Character Set should be set to match. >>> The profile commands below set Cygwin locale to your Windows Regional >>> settings >>> and charset to UTF-8, or Unix locale to your system locale. >>> Otherwise your system or mintty is going to be doing conversions on each >>> character. >> I am not aware that mintty character display and Windows regional settings >> would >> interfere in any way you indicated. >> Can you elaborate on this please? > > Maybe I'm just too optimistic that software will DTRT to ensure that output is > faithfully passed thru, or converted for the next layer of software, if it has > different settings. > I set all of my locales the same so characters should pass thru transparently > and I can see output faithfully rendered, given adequate font configurations. > > What happens when your system, terminal, and shell locales and charsets > differ? > Either some component/-s has/have to do conversion to provide readable output, > which is my expectation given the requirement to specify locales and charsets, > or you could end up with garbled output if nothing is doing any conversion. > Does one override others to pass thru readable output, does conversion occur, > or > do you just see junk in some or all cases when locales and charsets differ? > > I am ignoring here the effect on text content, input and output formatting of > selecting languages, territories, and scripts. >
For my working environment I need Cygwin and Windows to be different. I have other requirements for en_US.UTF-8 within the Windows environment. I use Netbeans IDE and it allows me to set the locale per project. It doesn't matter what the OS level states; that is just the default. -- cyg Simple -- 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
