Re: Accented characters, Emacs and Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:47:54 +0100
> From: Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden>
> 
> I can insert accented characters in Emacs buffers (current Emacs CVS 
> 23.0.60, Cygwin build), but when I copy/paste them writing mails with 
> Thunderbird or in Cygwin console (dos-like as Cygwin.bat), some garbage 
> appears.
> 
> For example the 'è' character appears:
> 
> in Thunderbird and Cygwin console     as    ')^'
> in Cygwin rxvt                        as    '@(Q)address@hidden'
> 
> Instead it is fine on Cygwin xterm or urxvt.
> 
> Is this behaviour to be expected?

I suggest to ask on the Cygwin list whether the Cygwin xterm and rxvt
support non-ASCII characters in X selections.  (AFAIK, Cygwin does not
yet support any locale but the C locale.)  If the Cygwin maintainers
say it should work, come back here and someone might find time to
investigate this.