I believe that Cygwin displays certain UTF-8 characters incorrectly. To
see the problem, first save the attached "utf-8_test.sed" text file to
your desktop. Then run "mintty," and set its options by right clicking
in its title bar, selecting "Options" and then "Text." On the Text page
set "L
Thank you for your advice on setting my locale to en_US.UTF-8.
Unfortunately, Cygwin still seems to have trouble displaying some
three-byte UTF-8 encoded characters correctly. For example, see the
following snippet from a "sed" file. This file attempts to convert
XML-encoded filenames to UTF
How do I reply to a post so that all previous replies are included, and
are nested to the appropriate depth? I'm using Thunderbird 52.5.0
(32-bit) on Windows 7. Thanks!
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Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:
I want to use multibyte UTF-8 characters in 64-bit Cygwin under Windows
7. The "vim" editor running in mintty displays the two-byte characters
correctly, but not the three- (and I assume four-) byte characters,
which instead display as rectangular filled-in blocks. The "less"
program doesn't
I use rsync to back up my Cygwin user directories to an external USB
disk drive, formatted as NTFS. This fails from time to time, usually
due to permission failures when trying to update the destination files.
The Windows permissions of the destination files turn out to be in the
wrong order,
I'd like to thank all of you who responded with advice on how to use
this mailing list, and how to reply to a post. I'd especially like to
thank Kaz Kylheku for his extensive and detailed tutorial on how to use
the mailing list, written as a reply to my original post. I encourage
everyone to
Thank you for responding to my post. I think I asked the wrong
question. What I really want to know is how to use this mailing list
and others like it. I'm new at this, and can't find any instructions
anywhere. Such lists must have become part of the culture, and I must
have missed school t
I tried to reply to the person who replied to my original post. I did
this by sending an email to this mailing list, with "RE: subject line>" as the new subject line. The mailing list took this to
be a reply to my original post, rather than a reply to the person who
replied to my original post
I really appreciate your looking into this problem. I use the Cygwin64
Terminal icon to create one or more windows. I set my login shell to
/bin/tcsh in /etc/passwd. As you suggested, I deleted ~/.logout, and do
not have an /etc/csh.logout. I also deleted ~/.login, and reduced my
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tcsh version 6.19.00-3 hangs on exit. tcsh scripts, once OK, no longer
respond to Control-C; must be stopped with Control-Z and then killed.
To test, try simplest possible script: #!/bin/csh as first and only
line. (Simplest possible bash script works fine.) Am running tcsh
version 6.19.00
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