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Re: tin shows "?" for german umlauts
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 05:56:21PM +0200, Reinhard.Irmer@skba.de wrote:
>hi list,
>
>I'm a cygwin-nuser who wants to use unixbased programs as mutt, pine,
>tin or slrn on my winxp(sp2)-machine. mutt and slrn are working fine in
>bash, only tin makes problems:.....look at subject.
>
>In a german usenetgroup was said, that this problem is a cygwin- not a
>tin-problem because cygwin is not made to support 'locales'. I'm not a
>programmer, only a nuser, who wants tin working fine under cygwin. What
>can I do, to see the german umlauts in tin instead of questionmarks?
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