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Re: Locales with wrong umlauts
- From: "Joshua Daniel Franklin" <joshuadfranklin at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:04:21 -0800
- Subject: Re: Locales with wrong umlauts
- References: <200406261959.28313.k-cygwin@ailis.de> <cbksmt$7vi$1@sea.gmane.org> <Pine.GSO.4.58.0406261847590.6778@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> <loom.20060326T135539-102@post.gmane.org>
On 3/26/06, Lapo Luchini wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, A. Alper Atici wrote:
> >
> > > try the following:
> > > set OUTPUT_CHARSET=iso-8859-1
>
> Instead of putting it simply in some FAQ couldn't Cygwin define that env var
> correctly "by default"? (after all the system *knows* which charset it is using,
> I guess?)
Is this available from some Windows envar or tool? I'm thinking this would
be best in a .profile or even /etc/profile. Unfortunately, I am clueless how
to test it.
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