I came across a surprising behaviour when a cygwin-process prints to a windows-console. In cygwin 1.7 (XP) I don't think any conversion took place, while now in cygwin 2 (10) cygwin-utf-8 gets converted into the suitable(?) windows-encoding used in the cmd-window.
I have a file containing german umlaut-characters encoded in utf-8 and cp850. When I'm in the cmd-window: C:\bat>type cmduml.txt ├û├ä├£├Â├ñ├╝├ƒ -> some cp850-characters with high-bit set ÖÄÜöäüß -> correct output C:\bat>\cygwin\bin\cat cmduml.txt ÖÄÜöäüß -> utf converted to cp850 ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ -> ??? C:\bat>chcp Aktive Codepage: 850. It makes things easier the way it is now, but I could not find it documented. Also I wonder about cygwin's output of the cp-850-characters, I'd expect them to be printed unchanged, instead I only see grey rectangles. In the cygwin-window the file is: /c/bat|17:05:30#od -x cmduml.txt 0000000 96c3 84c3 9cc3 b6c3 a4c3 bcc3 9fc3 990a 0000020 9a8e 8494 e181 0a0d 0000030 I've also attached it. I hope all is displayed correctly, but it should be easy to reproduce. -Helmut
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