National characters in the command window

Mon Jan 15 18:02:00 GMT 2007

Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:
> I have a Norwegian keyboard, and when I type the national characters on 
> the command
> line, nothing shows up - that is, the Ã¦ (the ae ligature) and Ã¥ (a with 
> ring above) keys do not
> respond, while the Ã¸ (o with slash across) key produces 'o'. 
> Dead-accent key combinations
> produce nothing. The cursor does not advance.
>> I have a file with the ae ligature in the file name. The command "ls | 
> od -t x1" shows that
> character as 0xe6, consistent with latin1 or with cp1252. "ls" to the 
> screen displays the
> file name properly. It seems the problem only affects keyboard input.
>> In a regular "dos" cmd window I can type file names with national 
> characters, and list the file
> names.
>> The environment vairables LANG and LC_* are not set. I have not found 
> any setting of these
> that make a difference.
>> The command
>> chcp.com
>> in the bash window returns 437. In 436, the ae ligature is 0x91.
>> In a regular dos cmd window, "dir > dirfile" produces a file that 
> contains cp437 coded file names.
> The ae ligature is 0x91. I determine this by "od < dirfile" in the bash 
> window.
>> Using chcp to set codepage 1252 in the bash window makes the ae ligature 
> display as the greek
> mu character when doing "ls" to the screen. "ls | od" still shows 0xe6 
> (1252) for the ae ligature.
> On input, the o-slash key nno longer produces 'o'. It produces nothing. 
> The cursor does not
> advance. Starting a new bash process in the same window does not seem 
> to change anything.
>> I have found so little about this on the net, that I believe I must be 
> missing something very
> basic in my cygwin installation. Does everybody else have the same problem?
>> Is there a good description anywhere of how these things work?

Does <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.unicode> not help?
Have you checked the email archives? I know this has come up before.
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