Difference between revisions of "Changing / adding environment variables"
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Windows variables are stored in the registry. You can change them by adding or modifying values in <code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment</code>. | Windows variables are stored in the registry. You can change them by adding or modifying values in <code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment</code>. | ||
| − | Below, an example for adding two variables for Cygwin - with it, applications using cygwin1.dll will be able to use UTF-8 | + | Below, an example for adding two variables for Cygwin - with it, applications using cygwin1.dll will be able to use UTF-8 characters in file and path names: |
<source lang="reg"> | <source lang="reg"> | ||
Revision as of 11:00, 4 April 2008
Windows variables are stored in the registry. You can change them by adding or modifying values in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment.
Below, an example for adding two variables for Cygwin - with it, applications using cygwin1.dll will be able to use UTF-8 characters in file and path names:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment]
"CYGWIN"="codepage:utf8"
"LC_CTYPE"="C-UTF-8"
Import with:
regedit /s "%SOFTWARE%\cygwin.reg