The way I understand it, mintty sets the LANG variable according to user settings. Would it make sense for mintty to invoke "cmd /c chcp <selected>" (SetConsoleOutputCP)? In case of no. Would it make sense to place a hint in a .bashrc about it? --pawel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple