Quotes changed to odd characters in gcc error msgs

2016-01-13 Thread Chuck Roberts
Hello, I am running Cygwin 2.3.0 on Windows 7. I'm new to Cygwin and trying to learn C programming (basic ANSI C). I'm having 2 problems. 1) When I get an error message from the gcc compiler, the quotes in the message are turned to high ascii characters that don't make sense. How do I fix this? M

Re: Quotes changed to odd characters in gcc error msgs

2016-01-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 1/13/2016 10:05 AM, Chuck Roberts wrote: Hello, I am running Cygwin 2.3.0 on Windows 7. I'm new to Cygwin and trying to learn C programming (basic ANSI C). I'm having 2 problems. 1) When I get an error message from the gcc compiler, the quotes in the message are turned to high ascii characte

Re: Quotes changed to odd characters in gcc error msgs

2016-01-13 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 13, 2016, at 8:05 AM, Chuck Roberts wrote: > > My TERM variable says "cygwin”. That means you’re running under the built-in Windows console, not MinTTY, which means you don’t get UTF-8 support by default. You could try “chcp 65001” but the real fix is to use MinTTY. MinTTY has *many*

Re: Quotes changed to odd characters in gcc error msgs

2016-01-13 Thread Ken Brown
[Let's keep the discussion on the mailing list.] On 1/13/2016 11:28 AM, Chuck Roberts wrote: -Original Message- From Ken Brown On 1/13/2016 10:05 AM, Chuck Roberts wrote: Hello, I am running Cygwin 2.3.0 on Windows 7. I'm new to Cygwin and trying to learn C programming (basic ANSI C).