On 2020-05-07 15:09, bri...@pounceofcats.com wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2020 20:19:29 +0000 > André Bleau via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: >> Brian D wrote: >>> Assuming Julia is a not Cygwin program, >>> you can try "CYGWIN=disable_pcon" before any Cygwin process >> Did not help. >> Thanks for that though, I had no idea those kind of env variables were >> available.
>> Character display problems do not depend only on the program you run, in >> your case, "Julia", whatever that is, but also in which terminal or console >> you run it, as it is the terminal that does the actual character display. >> If you run in in mintty for example, you could try: >> CYGWIN=disable_pcon /usr/bin/mintty >> and run Julia in the just opened mintty. >> I just happened to have a similar issue. If interested, look at: >> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-May/244742.html > Julia is a programming language and what i've shown is the REPL for it. > I tried precisely what you showed there and it makes no difference at all. > I get the exact same display. > Humorously, it displays just fine in a windows cmd terminal. As that env var is interpreted by the main Cygwin process cygwin1.dll, which has to be unloaded and reloaded, I'd set CYGWIN=disable_pcon in the System environment, then shut down all Cygwin processes, as you would before running setup, log off, and log on. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in IEC units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.] -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
