Still locale problems on Cygwin

Still locale problems on Cygwin

[Andrej Borsenkow]

I have English Win2k with Russian locale set, and russian characters are
shown as ? in ls output. While this is definitely Cygwin problem, Zsh
(often) completely hangs when completing such name ... sorry, it just
takes hours (well, a bit less :-) to give listing. It is so slow, that I
really had impression it was hung.

E.g.

mw1g017@MW1G17C:/cygdrive/d/temp% ls
mozilla-win32-M16-talkback.zip  ???????
zsh                             ???????
??????                          ???? ???????
????                            ?????
mw1g017@MW1G17C:/cygdrive/d/temp% ls ^Tизбор/
Completing file
\M-^B\M-(\M-'\M-!\M-.\M-`/
\M-^D\M-n\M--\M-
\M-\n\M- \M-!\M- \M-*\M-.\M-"
\M-^O\M-%\M-+\M-%\M-"\M-(\M--
\M-^Q\M- \M-h\M- \ \M-^Q\M-.\M-*\M-.\M-+\M-.\M-"
\M-+\M-%\M--\M-*\M- /
mozilla-win32-M16-talkback.zip
zsh/

The "real" contents is (for those, who can display russian characters at
all :-):

D:\TEMP>dir
 Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 7CB1-481F

 Directory of D:\TEMP

16.06.2000  16:03       <DIR>          .
16.06.2000  16:03       <DIR>          ..
16.06.2000  15:55            6 331 861 mozilla-win32-M16-talkback.zip
16.06.2000  17:18       <DIR>          zsh
10.03.2000  11:26       <DIR>          Визбор
09.02.2000  23:18       <DIR>          Дюна
15.03.2000  21:15       <DIR>          Кабаков
07.03.2000  16:46       <DIR>          ленка
01.03.2000  15:30       <DIR>          Пелевин
15.03.2000  21:16       <DIR>          Саша Соколов
               1 File(s)      6 331 861 bytes
               9 Dir(s)     740 864 000 bytes free

-andrej

Have a nice DOS!
B >>

P.S. I am afraif, this has to be discussed together with Cygwin guys,
but may be somebody has any idea?

RE: Still locale problems on Cygwin

[Andrej Borsenkow]

>
>
> I have English Win2k with Russian locale set, and russian
> characters are
> shown as ? in ls output. While this is definitely Cygwin problem, Zsh
> (often) completely hangs when completing such name ... sorry, it just
> takes hours (well, a bit less :-) to give listing. It is so
> slow, that I
> really had impression it was hung.
>


While figuring out environ problem, I got a look at locale
implementation in Cygwin. There is no :-) setlocale() is just a stub
function that accepts "C" as locale name and nothing more. It does
nothing :-))) And locale table contains only ASCII support. So, I
wonder, how can it work correclty even for ISO-8859-1 charset.

-andrej

Re: Still locale problems on Cygwin

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> I have English Win2k with Russian locale set, and russian characters are
> shown as ? in ls output. While this is definitely Cygwin problem, Zsh
> (often) completely hangs when completing such name ... sorry, it just
> takes hours (well, a bit less :-) to give listing. It is so slow, that I
> really had impression it was hung.

I can only try on unix with latin-1, of course, and there it works
nicely.

Do you have printeightbit set? That should only affect the display,
though.


Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de