Re: Character shown as \377 in *Shell* on w32

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:17:54 +0000
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Right. Native Windows console programs tend to use the DOS codepage 
> corresponding to the user's locale. But I think ports of GNU tools are 
> likely to use the equivalent ISO encoding (especially Cygwin, which 
> ignores Windows and runs in its own world), and since these are very 
> useful and widely used by Emacs users, I wouldn't want to fix on the DOS 
> codepage for process I/O.

In the special case of cmd.exe and cmdproxy, we know positively what
is the encoding, so this important case can be resolved without any
harm.

As for Cygwin programs, I always thought they support only the C
locale.  Was I mistaken?