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Hey I been bugging with this problem for some hours now. And I couldn't find the answer on google so I try it here.

The problem is that when I run emacs in cygwin in -nw mode characters like åäö doesn't come out normally. However it is perfectly normal when I type those character in mintty terminal. The answer that I found on google is that I should type M-x standard-display-european however emacs doesn't have that option. It only found standard-display-cyrillic-translit

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What exactly does go wrong with those characters? Does it affect newly created files or existing files? – ak2 Jan 7 '11 at 10:43
And which Cygwin version are you using? (uname -r will tell you.) – ak2 Jan 7 '11 at 11:55
@ak - i'm using 1.7.x. Those character will show up as blocks. It will show as blocks when I use cat as well. – starcorn Jan 7 '11 at 12:32
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Hmm. Where are you running emacs? In mintty or in the default console? If the latter, try choosing a TrueType font such as Lucida Console in the console properties. – ak2 Jan 7 '11 at 13:18
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That looks like inconsistent charset settings then. What are locale and character set on the Text page of mintty's options set to, and what are the values of the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG environment variables? Are you setting those variables in bash startup files? If so, don't, because the terminal won't get to know about it. – ak2 Jan 7 '11 at 16:00
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