On 2017-12-12 12:42, Thomas Taylor wrote: > I believe that Cygwin displays certain UTF-8 characters incorrectly. To see > the > problem, first save the attached "utf-8_test.sed" text file to your desktop. > Then run "mintty," and set its options by right clicking in its title bar, > selecting "Options" and then "Text." On the Text page set "Locale" to "en_US" > and "Character set" to "UTF-8," and then "Save." Now exit and restart > mintty. > Change directory to your desktop and run the editor "vim" on the > utf-8_test.sed > file. Once inside vim do a ":set fileencoding=utf-8". You should now see > that > vim displays correctly a sample of one-, two-, and three-byte UTF-8 character > encodings in the test file. Vim fails, however, on the three-byte encodings > for > the "en" dash, the "em" dash, and the ellipsis, each of which displays > incorrectly as a filled-in rectangle. Now exit vim and do a "less" or "cat" > on > the utf-8_test.sed file. You should see most of the sample UTF-8 encoded > characters displayed correctly, except once again for the en dash, em dash, > and > ellipsis. So it looks like a problem in the underlying Cygwin run-time > libraries rather than in vim, less, or cat. I haven't tested this on > four-byte > UTF-8 character encodings, but assume Cygwin will have similar problems.
Like many others -- no problems visible -- all UTF-8 characters displayed correctly in gvim/X, vim, less, cat from mintty. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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
