On Sep 18 09:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi list, > > I'm a cygwin-nuser who wants to use unixbased programs as mutt, pine, > tin or slrn on my winxp(sp2)-machine. mutt and slrn are working fine in > bash, only tin makes problems:.....look at subject. > > In a german usenetgroup was said, that this problem is a cygwin- not a > tin-problem because cygwin is not made to support 'locales'. I'm not a > programmer, only a nuser, who wants tin working fine under cygwin. What > can I do, to see the german umlauts in tin instead of questionmarks?
I don't know a way to get german umlauts in Cygwin's tin, but I know a good workaround which I'm using even on Linux to get rid of these dreaded umlauts. Start tin from bash like this: $ ISO2ASC=2 tin <...args...> You can also experiment with other ISO2ASC settings (0-6). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
