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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:24:09 -0400
From: Mark Harig <idirectscm AT aim DOT com>
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Subject: Problem with displaying ASCII table in mintty
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Is is possible to display the upper 128 entries in the ASCII
table in mintty using the 'cygutils' application 'ascii'?

Package versions:

bash-3.2$ /usr/bin/cygcheck -c bash cygutils cygwin mintty
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
bash                 3.2.49-22      OK
cygutils             1.4.0-1        OK
cygwin               1.7.0-50       OK
mintty               0.4.1-1        OK

bash-3.2$ /usr/bin/ascii --version
/usr/bin/ascii is part of cygutils version 1.4.0
  Prints nicely formatted table of the ascii character set


I have attempted to use two configurations, but neither one
displays the table without problems in mintty:

Configuration 1:

    - mintty: Using the font's codepage set to UTF-8

      bash-3.2$ /usr/bin/grep Codepage ~/.minttyrc
      Codepage=UTF-8

    - bash:
      bash-3.2$ echo $TERM
      xterm

     bash-3.2$ echo \"$LANG\" ":" \"$LC_ALL\" ":" \"$LC_CTYPE\"
      "en_US.UTF-8" : "en_US.UTF-8" : "en_US.UTF-8"

   With this configuration, the upper 128 entries to the ASCII
   table are displayed as follows (the #'s are replacements for
   the gray box character that is displayed):

       bash-3.2$ /usr/bin/ascii
       128  0x80  #    160  0xa0  #    192  0xc0  #    224  0xe0  #
       ...
       159  0x9f  #    191  0xbf  #    223  0xdf  #     255  0xff  #

Configuration 2:

    - mintty: Using the font's codepage set to ISO-8859-1

      bash-3.2$ /usr/bin/grep -i codepage ~/.minttyrc
      Codepage=ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe)

   - bash:

     bash-3.2$ echo \"$LANG\" ":" \"$LC_ALL\" ":" \"$LC_CTYPE\"
     "en_US.ISO-8859-1" : "en_US.ISO-8859-1" : "en_US.ISO-8859-1"

   With this second configuration, most of the upper 128 entries
   of the ASCII table are displayed, but many are missing.  In addition,
   many entries are displayed in the wrong location (some rows are out
   of order).

Note: I had mintty start bash with the '--norc' and '--noprofile' options.


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