I've tried that but it doesnt work, i mean that when i do a ls in a dir with jp/chinese named files it will just put "?" everywhere.... I'm running a jp win2k with jp locales
any idea? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul-Kenji Cahier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:38 AM > Subject: terms >> Hello all, >> >> I've been trying to make other terminals than rxvt work without the X >> server but without success yet... The problem of the rxvt that comes >> with cygwin is that as the original rxvt it doesnt support special >> charsets, and hence cant display correctly japanese characters, or >> chinese characters, or russian, etc. The alternative under linux would >> be to use either mlterm or rxvt-beta, mlterm being particularly useful >> as it allows multiple encoding in a same term. > I am using Simplified Chinese version of win2k and I put the following lines in my > ~/.Xdefaults: > [code] > rxvt*font: fixedsys > rxvt*boldFont: fixedsys > rxvt*mfont: fixedsys > rxvt*multibyte_cursor:True > rxvt*multichar_encoding:big5 > [/code] > then the rxvt windows shipped with cygwin can display Chinese characters correctly > (just as notepad.exe). > However, if I change the rxvt*multichar_encoding line to gb, it cannot display > correct gb2312 characters. It is confusing... > [snip] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/