Removed 1.5.25 and installed 1.7.0, but still cannot access filenames containing Unicode

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Tue Oct 27 14:11:00 GMT 2009


ext Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/10/27 Corinna Vinschen:
>   
>>> I added 'set LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8' (without the quotes) to Cygwin.bat, as
>>> suggested in the Internationalization section of the 1.7 User Guide, but
>>> there was no improvement.
>>>       
>> Uh oh, I guess this must be changed again in the docs.  Cygwin is using
>> UTF-8 throughout as default charset so there should be no reason to
>> do that.
>>     
>
> I think it's still a good idea to set it, so that things work
> correctly when connecting to a remote machine, and also for local apps
> that have their own (wrong) ideas about the default locale.
>   
I agree absolutely. This setting is needed for many apps and I suggest 
adding it to the default cygwin.bat, where it should probably be
'set LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8' to be more specific and to avoid a national 
preference.

Thomas

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