On 20 February 2010 13:23, Andy Koppe <andy.ko...@gmail.com> wrote: > David Balažic: >>>> A mismatch of Cygwin's charset and mintty's charset, probably. What >>>> versions of Cygwin and mintty are you using? What are the values of >>>> LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG? Is anything set in the Charset (or >>>> Codepage) field on the Text pane of mintty's options? >>> >>> Cygwin DLL version info: >>> DLL version: 1.7.1 >>> mintty 0.5.7-1 >>> >>> $LANG is SL , LC_* are undefined >>> >>> The mintty Text settings are empty. > > Right. As Thomas already pointed out, "SL" is an invalid locale > setting. In this case, Cygwin programs use the "C" locale, which in > 1.7.1. implies UTF-8. Mintty, on the other hand, falls back to the > system's "ANSI" codepage, with less than pretty results. > > Not quite a bug, since you can't expect anything non-ASCII to work > correctly with an invalid locale setting, but nevertheless I've now > changed mintty to fall back to UTF-8. > > >>> As mentioned, this is a fresh install and 99,9% of settings are at default. >>> >>> Windows Regional settings are: >>> Standards and formats : Slovenian >>> Location: United States >>> Input Language/Keyborad layout: US English >>> >> >> Aha, the other account has: >> Standards and formats : English (US) >> >> I changed it on this account too and now it works. >> >> $LANG is now C.UTF-8 > > I'm puzzled by that, because the standards and formats setting > shouldn't have any effect on LANG, at least as far as mintty and > Cygwin are concerned. Any idea how it might have got set to "SL"? > > In any case, the easy way to set locale and charset in mintty is via > the Text options. This will also set up LANG accordingly in newly > started sessions.
As I already mentioned, it is a fresh cygwin install. There is alreadt an old, pre-1.7 cygwin setup, but according to post here, it should not matter. And since the problem is triggered by a simple change in the system prefs, anyone onterested can try it ;-) -- 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