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Probably what I said is an unnecessary complication.

I was just thinking might there be some systems which get the locale information from elsewhere, such as MS Windows getting it from the registry (uses locale strings like English_USA.1252 etc. without needing anything in the environment).

So ...

I see that setlocale() can also query the current locale by using a NULL arg. So it might be worth querying it first and only setting it if was the default "C" locale - since if there is no LANG environment variable set then setlocale(LC_ALL,"") would set it to "C" when there might have been a ...

Yes, I added the setlocale() call and it works on both Linux and Cygwin/Windows for UTF-8 passwords. I can encrypt a file on one O/S and decrypt it on the other O/S using the same UTF-8 password string.

The LIBS is also needed on Cygwin, but you get undefined references if you put it before the ...

Can I suggest adding:

setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

at the beginning of main() in aescrypt.c etc. to set the locale from the environment.

Without this nl_langinfo(CODESET) always returns ANSI_X3.4-1968 (on both Linux and Cygwin) which then disallows non ASCII characters on the command line in the ...