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Re: UTF-8 in Cygwin console on 1.7
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:12:26 -0500
- Subject: Re: UTF-8 in Cygwin console on 1.7
- References: <4B1E4D22.9020406@hones.org.uk>
Cliff Hones wrote:
> [I was rather surprised to discover that non-X rxvt does not handle
> UTF-8 output at all, not that this causes me any great concern.]
rxvt is dead, upstream, and will never support anything but narrow
characters. I'm seriously considering marking it _obsolete sometime
after cygwin-1.7.1 is released.
Use mintty for non-X, and rxvt-unicode for X. I'll even release a
run2-style xml configuration so that you can mimic the "dual mode"
nature of current rxvt with those two programs.
--
Chuck
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