internation characters ä ö å œ æ é

[tukuniata]

Hello everybody
i would like some help from you I have a toshiba sattelite laptop in which i m running cygwin under windows xp home edition. This laptop has an american keyboard.
I want to write characters like this (ä ö å œ æ é ). After i found a way to write them with emacs, I m realizing that cygwin replace those characters by a grey square(in my program).
How can make it so that cygwin can understand and print them.
Thanks in advance.

[moorecm]

Typically, when you see squares rather than characters, it means that the font does not contain those characters.

[chrisname]

You need to use a Unicode font, then.

[tukuniata]

Thanks for your answers, but how can i use that unicode font?

[chrisname]

Well, presumably you have a unicode font, if Emacs can print them. Just find out what font Emacs is using.

[tukuniata]

How to find them?
What is that font unicode means anyway?
do you have any link or good tut to direct me?

[chrisname]

By unicode font I refer to a font that has support for unicode characters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

Here's a list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_typefaces#List_of_Unicode_fonts

[Duthomhas]

Make sure your console processes are using "Lucida Console" (or some other fixed-point, unicode font).

The problem may not be that simple, though. Here's something interesting you might find helpful.
http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/

[DrChill]

I am running a Toshiba Satellite to, what model is yours?

[tukuniata]

I m sory doctor chill i was really busy try to find out how to sort out this issue, that i didn't read my e-mails and neither visited this web site. Now that the problem is solved, i don't think you still want my Toshiba model.

Here is the way i sort out this problem.
First i updated my cygwin version from 1.3 to 1.7 note because 1.7 is an important update i reinstall the all cygwin in my xp.
secondly i modified my C:\cygwin\Cygwin.bat file,
like this:

@echo off

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin

set LC_ALL=en_US.CP1252
bash --login -i

Actually i added this line set LC_ALL=en_US.CP1252 to the old .bat file
Now the problem is solved .
Thanks any way for your helps i have learned a lot about font with all your links

[tummychow]

You can print unicode with the escape sequence \u, followed by the character code (usually four characters long).
For example, \u1234. That counts as one character.

[tukuniata]

I have tried to read stuff in that direction but it was confusioning and not really clearly written for my concerne.

Now i m ok.