On Nov 20 19:56, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 18 November 2011 10:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > There's the faq entry "My application prints international characters > > but I only see gray boxes". The entry about the console is still > > valid, even after changing to mintty on the desktop. > > That answer seems out of date actually, since the Cygwin console > charset is determined at the start of each process rather than at the > start of each process tree, so it should always match what a process > thinks it is. > > > Do you think > > it makes sense to add words about mintty here? If so, I guess the > > problem more often occurs with Win32 apps running in a UTF-8 mintty. > > Do you have a suggestion for an addition related to mintty? > > How about this:
Simple and clear. Checked in. Thanks! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat