On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:42:36AM +0100, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > > I just had to investigate this a bit, so on a Vista machine I started a cmd > prompt and typed mode con: cp select=65001, selected the lucida font and then > echo å >x.txt and opened it in notepad and it was UTF-8 encoded. Yes, but have you tried to run any batch file? At least, on WinXP all batch files silently stopped working after choosing 65001, and I don't know what else gets broken, because Microsoft C library does not work with encoding that requires more than two bytes per character. > So there might > be some hope after all. I don't know how to change the encoding for non-console > apps. I leave that as an excercise for the list. It is not difficult to change the current encoding in any Windows application, the real issue is that neither Microsoft C library nor Cygwin library does not work correctly with UTF-8. There is a patch for Cygwin though... Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
