Re: [Mingw-users] MSYS code page

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

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.
>

The cat binary supplied by MSYS sends binary streams of data to the
terminal.  It is the terminal's job to interpret the data.  No
conversion is done by cat; that is just a misunderstanding of what
happens.

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