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Re: Console codepage setting via chcp?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:11:22 +0200
- Subject: Re: Console codepage setting via chcp?
- References: <20090923164812.GG20981@calimero.vinschen.de> <200909251250.n8PCoZo1018821@mail.bln1.bf.nsn-intra.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sep 25 14:50, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> 2009/9/23 Corinna Vinschen:
> > Right now, if you switch the charset via the setlocale function, you
> > also switch the charset used for console output.
>
> Andy wrote:
> > That's quite a unique advantage of the Cygwin console actually,
> > because it means you always get correct output even if you switch
> > charset on the fly.
> It might be considered an advantage but the fact that it is unique
> also means it is absolutely not portable.
> [...]
Any reason you redirected your reply to the cygwin list? It doesn't
make much sense to disuss this in two lists and it's breaking the
threading on the cygwin-developers list for no apparent reason.
Please resend your reply to the cygwin-developers list, into the
right thread.
Thanks,
Corinna
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