X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SARE_MSGID_LONG45,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <004501cadd0c$4876c610$d9645230$@com> <006901cadd31$d6423680$82c6a380$@com> <007301cadd3d$859be350$90d3a9f0$@com> <009501cadd5f$5d4e13b0$17ea3b10$@com> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:37:34 +0100 Received: by 10.239.147.11 with SMTP id y11mr151010hba.78.1271443054076; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:37:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: Cygwin does not have unicode support however FileZilla displays unicode From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com me scribbled: > Eric wrote: >>> What exactly is coming out as rectangles, i.e. which letters do you >>> expect instead? Are any particular programs affected? >> >> Instead of Chinese characters I get the rectangle box that looks like [] but without the gaps. >> >> Programs affected so far are the command prompt and filenames. >> >> The OS that cygwin is running on is Windows 7 32bit English - using the Chinese Traditional language pack. > > I see. Lucida Console and Consolas don't contain glyphs for Chinese or > the other East Asian languages. In non-console programs such as PuTTY, > Windows automatically substitutes glyphs from appropriate fonts, but > for some reason it doesn't do that in the console. Nor does it allow > you to switch to fonts like SimSun or MingLiU, unless, that is, you > change the system's "Language for non-Unicode programs" on the > Administrative tab of the Region&Language control panel to Chinese. Actually there is a way to change to a font not normally available in the console properties without changing the "Language for non-Unicode programs". It requires registry hacking though. See http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-cmd-add-font.html Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple