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Eric Blake wrote:
> > 
> > > But wait - yet here's my question: Why is there a difference between 
> > > 	bash --login
> > > and
> > > 	bash
> > > - where in the latter case CP1252 (or the default ANSI codepage) 
> > > *is* still the default?
> 
> It must be that one of your startup scripts is changing the locale environment 
> variables, where --login pulls in a different set of startup scripts than 
> regular shells.  Check the values of LANG, LC_ALL, and friends between your two 
> shells.  And use 'bash -vx --login' to spot where it was changed.
None of LANG or LC_* are set in both cases (could have mentioned that before).
Also, if I move away .profile and .bashrc for a test run, the difference remains.

If you have any other suggestions to test this weird issue, maybe a cygwin 
debug flag or test version, I'll try again next week.

Thomas

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