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* faq-using.xml (faq.using.weirdchars): Rewrite.

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2011-11-21 Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
* faq-using.xml (faq.using.weirdchars): Rewrite.
2011-11-17 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* faq-using.xml (faq.using.converting-paths): Remove reference to

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<question><para>My application prints international characters but I only
see gray boxes</para></question>
<answer>
<para>Very likely you didn't set your console character set to the preferred
character set before the first Cygwin application was started in the
console. To make sure the console is using the desired character set,
make sure that one of the internationalization environment variables
LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, or LANG is set before the first Cygwin process starts.
You can do that, for instance, by setting the variable in your
<literal>Cygwin.bat</literal> file from which you start your Cygwin shell.
</para>
<para>
For a more detailed explanation see the section
<ulink url="http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html#setup-locale-console">The Windows Console character set</ulink> in the Cygwin User's Guide.</para>
<para>In the case of Cygwin programs, this likely means that the
character set as determined by the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or LANG environment
variables does not match the one set on the Text page of the Cygwin Terminal's
options. Setting the locale in the terminal's options will set the LANG
variable accordingly.</para>
<para>Non-Cygwin programs in the Cygwin Terminal do not usually take
heed of the locale environment variables. Instead, they often use the
so-called console codepage, which can be determined with the command
<command>cmd /c chcp</command> followed by the appropriate Windows
codepage number. The codepage number for Cygwin's default UTF-8 character
set is 65001.</para>
</answer></qandaentry>
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