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Subject: Re: LC_ALL=ru_RU.cp1251 ls -l encoding problem.
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On Sep  5 21:16, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> As you can see user/group always printed in UTF-8
> and discard LC_ALL=cp1251.
> 
>   $ LC_ALL=ru_RU.cp1251 mintty

The problem is, what is the encoding of the /etc/passwd file itself?
If it's UTF-8, it's UTF-8.  If you want to use another encoding
throughout, you would have to generate the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
files in that other encoding as well.


Corinna

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