Comment 4 for bug 256525

Here is a better solution to the Cygwin UTF-8 issues.

http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/

c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin>ikarus -- ქართული 한국어 Ελληνικ
Ikarus Scheme version 0.0.3+ (revision 1584, build 2008-08-11)
Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Abdulaziz Ghuloum

> (command-line)
("*interactive*" "ქართული" "한국어" "Ελληνικ")
> "\x9AE;\x9A3;\x9BF;\x9AA;\x9C1;\x9B0;\x9C0;\n"
"মণিপুরী\n"
>

:)