On Mar 8 09:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In codepage 1252 (latin1) character 0xe4 represents the umlaut a!! > In codepage 850 character 0xa4 represents the umlaut a!! > > Why do cygwin this conversion?
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM, I guess! > I did some test using the CYGWIN environment variable with codepage:ansi and > codepage:oem! > But the characters are still converted - the codepage affects only the > repesentation on screen but not the characters values! Then you didn't test correctly! In cmd.exe: > set ZZ=XaouY <-- aou = umlaut-a umlaut-o umlaut-u! > bash $ echo $ZZ X",?Y $ exit > set CYGWIN=codepage:oem > bash $ echo $ZZ XaouY <-- aou = umlaut-a umlaut-o umlaut-u! ! Corinna -- 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/