mintty - char encoding problems

[Andy Koppe]

On 19 February 2010 19:39, David Balažic:
> Hi!
>
> I have few days old setup of cygwin on WinXP.
> I also installed mintty.
>
> I worked fine on one user account, which is a member of the
> Administrators group.
>
> Today I started mintty under another, not admin, user, and got this:
>
> »./.bashrc« -> »/home/work//.bashrc«
> »./.bash_profile« -> »/home/work//.bash_profile«
> »./.inputrc« -> »/home/work//.inputrc«
>
> I also can not type certain non-ascii chars, that worked fine in the
> first user, like čšž.
> Now they appear on the bach command line as c ( š and ž don't appear at all).
>
> Any idea what is wrong?

A mismatch of Cygwin's charset and mintty's charset, probably. What
versions of Cygwin and mintty are you using? What are the values of
LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG? Is anything set in the Charset (or
Codepage) field on the Text pane of mintty's options?

Andy

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