Cygwin UTF-8

Mon Aug 22 22:36:00 GMT 2005

John Morrison wrote:
>> I'm trying to get Cygwin to run as utf-8 and failing. 

Cygwin itself doesn't care what character set you are using.
The only thing I can think of where you might think Cygwin would have 
some effect here is printing UTF-8 to the console and expecting it to 
use the right characters. This will not happen, because the Windows 
console does not use UTF-8. By default, it only deals with 8-bit 
characters in your local code page. There's a way to set the console to 
accept UCS-2 encoded characters.
If this is your problem, you should be using something like iconv() to 
allow your program to run on 8-bit systems, UTF-8 systems, and UCS-2 
systems transparently.
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