From: Radovan Garabik (garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk)
Date: Mon Apr 26 2004 - 01:27:07 EDT
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 03:31:34PM -0400, Edward H. Trager wrote:
> On Friday 2004.04.23 13:57:56 -0400, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:
> > Edward H. Trager scripsit:
> >
> > > (Windows' lack of a decent shell and command-line tools is probably
> > > what makes the OS most annoying).
> >
> > Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com) is your friend; it provides a relatively
> > complete Unix hosted on Win32. It works best on the NT branch of the
> > family when the disks are NTFS, but will degrade gracefully under W9x
> > and/or FAT.
>
> Absolutely. The existence of Cygwin makes work on Windows much more tolerable,
> especially since Cygwin provides the OpenSSH client, XFree86, Perl,
> console vim, egrep, etc. However, I still haven't figured out how to display
> a UTF-8 file with non-latin characters in the Cygwin bash shell (on Win2K). As
> far as I know, this shell really just sits on top of a DOS shell. And
> as far as I can tell, "chcp 65001" still doesn't let you see, for example,
> CJK characters in the terminal. I don't think it is possible. Since I also
Once upon a time I had to work on Windows (2000), and I used
succesfully either cygwin's xterm (with proper utf-8 settings),
or putty and ssh to local ssh server (running on cygwin). The latter
case is more comfortable to work with, but cannot display CJK (maybe it
can if set up properly, I did not bother)
Anyway, for *really serious* unicode work, use yudit. There is also
a windows version.
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