Re: [Mingw-users] Can't input russian in bash prompt

[Renato S. <br....@gm...>]

2013/2/16 Maximus <Con...@gm...>

> Yes, "cat > foo" works, russian letters appears in "foo" file. But I
> realize, that it is used Ansi codepage, not OEM. This does not matter for
> me, but is this right?


Confirmed here too, cat sends ANSI bytes to the file even though current
code page in cmd.exe is 850. If you then cat the file however, for some
crazy reason, as discussed in the other thread, it now translates from ANSI
to OEM.