From: John B. <joh...@ho...> - 2013-02-13 12:22:05
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:09:06 +0100, Erwin Waterlander wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:00 PM, John Brown wrote: >>> >>> If the default code page of the msys dll is ANSI and this is >>> responsible for the output of `cat', then why is that output >>> different from what is displayed in Notepad? Notepad++ shows >>> the same thing as Notepad, and Notepad++ shows "UNIX" (for the >>> 0x0A line endings), and "ANSI" in its status bar. >>> >> > > Notepad++ says "Unix" only because of the Unix line break. "Unix" > doesn't say anything about the used encoding. All encodings, OEM, ANSI, > ISO, Unicode, ..., can have Unix or DOS or Mac line breaks. > > regards, > > -- > Erwin Waterlander Indeed "UNIX" says nothing about the encoding. Immediately after "UNIX", what do we see but: (for the 0x0A line endings) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ So clearly I know why Notepad++ said "UNIX". For reasons best known to yourself, you ignored the rest of the sentence where I wrote: *and "ANSI" in its status bar*. ^^^^ So let me try again: 1) I opened the file in Notepad. I noticed that what was displayed was different from the MSYS output, which you said is ANSI by default. 2) Notepad uses ANSI by default, but it also works with UTF-8, Unicode and Unicode Big-endian. Notepad does not display conveniently the name of the encoding that it is using. You can find out by File -> Save As. I did that and it said ANSI as I expected. 3) To confirm it, I opened the file in Notepad++, which *does* show the encoding that it is using. It said ANSI as I expected, and the output was the same as in Notepad. 4) However, the output was diferent from the MSYS window, so back to my original question: If MSYS uses ANSI by default, and Notepad uses ANSI by default, then why is the file not displayed the same in both windows? Regards, John Brown. |