Re: setting character set in mintty

2014-07-09 Thread Pawel Jasinski
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Pawel Jasinski! > The way I understand it, mintty sets the LANG variable according to user settings. Would it make sense for mintty to invoke "cmd /c chcp " (SetConsoleOutputCP)? > >>>mintty does not use the conso

setting character set in mintty

2014-07-08 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Pawel Jasinski! >>> The way I understand it, mintty sets the LANG variable according to >>> user settings. >>> Would it make sense for mintty to invoke "cmd /c chcp " >>> (SetConsoleOutputCP)? >>mintty does not use the console at all. A chcp call doesn't make >>any sense. > Sorry for

Subject: Re: setting character set in mintty

2014-07-08 Thread Pawel Jasinski
>> The way I understand it, mintty sets the LANG variable according to >> user settings. >> Would it make sense for mintty to invoke "cmd /c chcp " >> (SetConsoleOutputCP)? >mintty does not use the console at all. A chcp call doesn't make >any sense. Sorry for asking stupid question. My knowledg

Re: setting character set in mintty

2014-07-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 7 00:16, Pawel Jasinski wrote: > The way I understand it, mintty sets the LANG variable according to > user settings. > Would it make sense for mintty to invoke "cmd /c chcp " > (SetConsoleOutputCP)? mintty does not use the console at all. A chcp call doesn't make any sense. Corinna --

setting character set in mintty

2014-07-06 Thread Pawel Jasinski
The way I understand it, mintty sets the LANG variable according to user settings. Would it make sense for mintty to invoke "cmd /c chcp " (SetConsoleOutputCP)? In case of no. Would it make sense to place a hint in a .bashrc about it? --pawel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems