codepage translation of environment

Hello all, why is the environment converted to another codepage! I'm using newest cygwin version 1.5.13! Here just an example: I'm in an standard cmd.exe and set the environment variable ZZ to 12 set ZZ=12 I did several test using the small program getEnv.exe (source code see below) The

Re: codepage translation of environment

On Mar 8 09:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In codepage 1252 (latin1) character 0xe4 represents the umlaut a!! In codepage 850 character 0xa4 represents the umlaut a!! Why do cygwin this conversion? http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM, I guess! I did some test using the CYGWIN environment