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Some of the outputs from cygwin just can not be read with bad encoding?

I'm using cygwin on Win7-64bit, and with "zh_CN.UTF-8" as default locale setting. Occasionally, some of the outputs from cygwin just can not be read with bad encoding like follows:

[junit] ▒▒▒▒: ▒Ҳ▒▒▒▒▒▒޷▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ can't

Any idea? Thanks.

Solution

  • http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.weirdchars

    It's just caused by some Chinese character here.

    Change the Terminal Options of Text, choose character set as "GBK". It works.