On Apr 3 13:10, Brian Dessent wrote: > Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > > So once Cygwin learns how to speak UTF-8, I will finally be able to > > backup all Windows files... :) > > Set CYGWIN=codepage:utf8 to enable UTF-8 support.
...and set LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8, otherwise multibyte/wide char aware application don't convert UTF-8 strings correctly from multibyte to wide char and vice versa. 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/