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diff --git a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml index c8c00f914..c78299e5e 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml @@ -50,6 +50,23 @@ case" error.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </listitem> + +<listitem> +<para><FirstTerm>codepage:[ansi|oem]</FirstTerm> - Windows console +applications can use different character sets (codepages) for drawing +characters. The first setting, called "ansi", is the default. +This character set contains various forms of latin characters used +in European languages. The name originates from the ANSI Latin1 +(ISO 8859-1) standard, used in Windows 1.0, though the character +sets have since diverged from any standard. The second setting +selects an older, DOS-based character set, containing various line +drawing and special characters. It is called "oem" since it was +originally encoded in the firmware of IBM PCs by original +equipment manufacturers (OEMs). If you find that some characters +(especially non-US or 'graphical' ones) do not display correctly in +Cygwin, you can use this option to select an appropriate codepage. +</listitem> + <listitem> <para><FirstTerm>(no)envcache</FirstTerm> - If set, environment variable conversions (between Win32 and POSIX) are cached. Note that this is may |