UTF-8 in Cygwin console on 1.7

Cliff Hones cliff@hones.org.uk
Wed Dec 9 04:39:00 GMT 2009


Andy Koppe wrote:
> > 2009/12/8 Cliff Hones:
>> >> ..
>> >> I have just checked Cygwin 1.5 and this aslo mishandles NUL, so I guess
>> >> it is a long-standing problem (or Microsoft oddity, or workaround for
>> >> something else...).
> >
> > I don't know what the story behind that is, but a (trivial) fix is
> > attached. It also changes the handling of SI (0xF) in the same way.

I think you missed attaching your fix - or else it has got lost.
I would guess the change is to file cygwin/fhandler_console.cc, and
is simply to remove line 1616 [ cursor_rel (1, 0); ] (after case NULL:)

-- Cliff


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