Re: mintty - char encoding problems

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

On 02/19/2010 02:39 PM, David BalaÅic wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have few days old setup of cygwin on WinXP.
> I also installed mintty.
>
> I worked fine on one user account, which is a member of the
> Administrators group.
>
> Today I started mintty under another, not admin, user, and got this:
>
> ÃÂ./.bashrcÃÂ ->  ÃÂ/home/work//.bashrcÃÂ
> ÃÂ./.bash_profileÃÂ ->  ÃÂ/home/work//.bash_profileÃÂ
> ÃÂ./.inputrcÃÂ ->  ÃÂ/home/work//.inputrcÃÂ
>
> I also can not type certain non-ascii chars, that worked fine in the
> first user, like ÄÅÅ.
> Now they appear on the bach command line as c ( Å and Å don't appear at all).
>
> Any idea what is wrong?

What are your character set and locale settings for the other user?

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