Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/12/8 Cliff Hones: >> Is UTF-8 character output fully supported in the standard Cygwin >> console ($TERM=cygwin) under Cygwin 1.7? > > Yes (except it's limited to the Basic Multilingual Plane). You need to > select a Unicode-capable font in the console properties though. > Basically, anything but the default "Raster Font".
Ah - yes, I should have thought to look at the console window font! Lucida and Consolas both display euro correctly. However, font selection does not affect the incorrect handling of NUL. Perhaps setup.exe should offer to generate a shortcut (as well as .bat and .ico) with, say, the Lucida font selected? I have just checked Cygwin 1.5 and this aslo mishandles NUL, so I guess it is a long-standing problem (or Microsoft oddity, or workaround for something else...). It is showing up as an error when I use telnet in a cygwin console window - it seems telnet must run in binary mode for UTF-8 to be passed successfully, but then telnet passes on the NUL in the "\r NUL" sequence and you get a space at the start of each line. [This could be considered a telnet bug - but independent of Cygwin NUL handling.] -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple