Unicode stopped working for cygwin

[hartmark]

Versions

ConEmu build: 191012 x64
OS version: Windows 10 x64
Used shell version (Far Manager, cygwin

Problem description

Cygwin unicode seems to be broken after latest windows update for windows 10 on 1803 version.

I get just garbage characters when typing swedish characters like åäö and unicode is print out like garbage too.

The terminal task is set to the default:
set CHERE_INVOKING=1 & set "PATH=C:\cygwin64\bin;%PATH%" & %ConEmuBaseDir%\conemu-cyg-64.exe -new_console:p C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --login -i -new_console:m:/cygdrive -new_console:C:"C:\cygwin64\Cygwin.ico"

Steps to reproduce

1. Start cygwin bash
2. type åäö

Actual results

get "åäö" printed out

Expected results

get "åäö" printed out

[Nebula-Mechanica]

I confirm this with Cyrillic, but this happen to me right after update to Cygwin 3.1, I guess it's the real source of problem. In cygwin-bundled mintty everything is fine.

[xylographe]

Try chcp 65001. The UTF-8 byte sequence representing "ä" is C3 A4. If this byte sequence is decoded with Windows-1252 encoding, it is displayed as "ä".

[Nebula-Mechanica]

Oops, sorry. Cannot reproduce at home, will have to investigate further.

[hartmark]

➜  kmha61 chcp
Active code page: 1252
➜  kmha61 chcp 65001
Active code page: 65001
➜  kmha61 chcp
Active code page: 1252
➜  kmha61

hmm, looks like chcp doesn't bite, it's getting reset to 1252

[tyan0]

1. Could you please let us know the output of locale command?
2. What is the default code page in command prompt?

[hartmark]

$ locale
LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

2. Do you mean chcp in regular cmd prompt?
   Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.1184]
   (c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. Med ensamrätt.

C:\Users\kmha61>chcp
Active code page: 850

[tyan0]

Thanks for the information. I can reproduce the problem in the environment which does not support pseudo console. I have just submitted a patch to cygwin-patches mailing list for this issue.

https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2020-q1/msg00011.html

Please wait for the new cygwin release.

[hartmark]

wow! well spotted and fixed.

Is there a way to get a notification from cygwin when it's released?

[tyan0]

Is there a way to get a notification from cygwin when it's released?

Please check the cygwin mailing list:
https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/

[tyan0]

A new cygwin has not yet been released, but a developer snapshot that fixes this problem is ready.
https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
Please test.

[hartmark]

Sweet! It's working now.

$ åäö
$ chcp
Active code page: 65001

[tyan0]

Thanks for testing!