Re: Cygwin UTF-8

2005-08-22 Thread Warren Young
Larry Hall wrote: I didn't try it but it seems relevant. I just did, and it does work if you give -u8. The xterm started by startx doesn't have this flag. If I'm right, this is more an issue for the xfree list. Indeed. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

Re: Cygwin UTF-8

2005-08-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:40 PM 8/22/2005, you wrote: >John Morrison wrote: >>I'm connecting (ssh) to a linux box which is running it's shells as utf-8. > >In that case, you should set up the remote Linux system not to use UTF-8 >until Cygwin's xterm gets UTF-8 support. Setting the LANG environment >variable to C

Re: Cygwin UTF-8

2005-08-22 Thread Warren Young
John Morrison wrote: I'm connecting (ssh) to a linux box which is running it's shells as utf-8. In that case, you should set up the remote Linux system not to use UTF-8 until Cygwin's xterm gets UTF-8 support. Setting the LANG environment variable to C will do it. (export LANG=C) -- Unsub

Re: Cygwin UTF-8

2005-08-22 Thread Warren Young
John Morrison wrote: I'm trying to get Cygwin to run as utf-8 and failing. Cygwin itself doesn't care what character set you are using. The only thing I can think of where you might think Cygwin would have some effect here is printing UTF-8 to the console and expecting it to use the right

Re: Cygwin UTF-8

2005-08-22 Thread John Morrison
On Mon, August 22, 2005 7:36 pm, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, John Morrison wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm trying to get Cygwin to run as utf-8 and failing. Can anyone tell >> me >> if it's possible and if it is - what I need to do? *please*? > > John, > > Which part of Cyg

Re: Cygwin UTF-8

2005-08-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, John Morrison wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to get Cygwin to run as utf-8 and failing. Can anyone tell me > if it's possible and if it is - what I need to do? *please*? John, Which part of Cygwin are you trying to run as "utf-8"? Igor --