[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-62

[Thomas Wolff]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct  6 17:02, Andy Koppe wrote:
>   
>> 2009/10/6 Ken Brown:
>>     
>>> I've tried to view the attached file (extracted from the output of fc-list)
>>> in various ways, and here's what I've found (running XP in the U.S., with no
>>> language-related customization):
>>>
>>>  - Using emacs under X, emacs recognizes the file as UTF-8 and displays the
>>> foreign characters correctly.
>>>
>>>  - 'cat temp.txt' in the cygwin console produces lots of question marks.
>>>       
>> You probably need to select a Unicode-enabled font in the console's
>> properties, e.g. Lucida Console.
>>     
>
> Uh, right.  I forgot the font problem.  I'm also using Lucida Console in
> the console, usually.
>   
It should be possible (and should be done then) to pre-configure at 
least the Cygwin desktop link to use Lucida Console.
(And maybe an option to mkshorcut for this purpose would be useful, too.)
Don't know whether it's possible to select the font from within 
cygwin.bat, though.

Thomas

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