Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes: > On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, A. Alper Atici wrote: > > > try the following: > > set OUTPUT_CHARSET=iso-8859-1 > > Wow. Thanks, this was *extremely* useful. Interestingly enough, the > OUTPUT_CHARSET option was not mentioned anywhere in the gettext/libintl > documentation, but a search for it unearthed another couple of messages on > this list from earlier this year with the same info[*] (one was from you).
Extremely useful to me too, I was quite fed up to see "`a" instead of "à" =) I also noticed that OUTPUT_CHARSET=CP1252 *may* be preferred, compare the following outputs: % mtn up monotone: gi`a aggiornato a '1848d7dfabfbed09fe53856da038e31eed0f42dc' % OUTPUT_CHARSET=CP1252 monotone up monotone: già aggiornato a ‘1848d7dfabfbed09fe53856da038e31eed0f42dc’ % OUTPUT_CHARSET=ISO8859-1 monotone up monotone: già aggiornato a `1848d7dfabfbed09fe53856da038e31eed0f42dc´ % OUTPUT_CHARSET=ISO8859-15 mtn up monotone: già aggiornato a '1848d7dfabfbed09fe53856da038e31eed0f42dc' In order to really "check" it some gettext with an euro symbol should be used, but I'm not aware of any that does and I don't have the time to create one right now 0=) Instead of putting it simply in some FAQ couldn't Cygwin define that env var correctly "by default"? (after all the system *knows* which charset it is using, I guess?) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
