diff -Naur -Naru dvd-vr-0.9.1/dvd-vr.c dvd-vr-0.9.2/dvd-vr.c
--- dvd-vr-0.9.1/dvd-vr.c	2009-02-25 00:48:57.000000000 +0000
+++ dvd-vr-0.9.2/dvd-vr.c	2009-07-13 13:43:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@
 #include <iconv.h>
 #endif
 const char* disc_charset;
+const char* sys_charset;
 
 /*********************************************************************************
  *                          support routines
@@ -332,32 +333,71 @@
 }
 #endif //MMAP_WRITE
 
+static const char* get_charset(void)
+{
+    const char* codeset = nl_langinfo(CODESET);
+#ifdef __CYGWIN__
+    /* Cygwin 1.5 does not support locales and nl_langinfo (CODESET)
+       always returns "US-ASCII". This is fixed in v1.7 I think?  */
+    if (codeset && STREQ(codeset, "US-ASCII")) {
+
+        /* parse LANG=ja_JP.SJIS -> SJIS */
+        const char* locale = getenv ("LANG");
+        if (locale && *locale) {
+            const char *dot = strchr (locale, '.');
+
+            if (dot) {
+                const char *modifier;
+
+                dot++;
+                if (!(modifier = strchr (dot, '@'))) {
+                    return dot;
+                } else {
+                    static char buf[32];
+                    size_t len = modifier - dot;
+                    if (len < sizeof (buf)) {
+                        memcpy (buf, dot, len);
+                        *(buf+len) = '\0';
+                        return buf;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return "UTF-8";
+    }
+#endif
+    return codeset;
+}
+
 static bool text_convert(const char *src, size_t srclen, char *dst, size_t dstlen)
 {
     bool ret=false;
 #ifdef HAVE_ICONV
-    iconv_t cd = iconv_open (nl_langinfo(CODESET), disc_charset);
+    iconv_t cd = iconv_open (sys_charset, disc_charset);
     if (cd != (iconv_t)-1) {
         if (iconv (cd, (ICONV_CONST char**)&src, &srclen, &dst, &dstlen) != (size_t)-1) {
             if (iconv (cd, NULL, NULL, &dst, &dstlen) != (size_t)-1) { /* terminate string */
                 ret=true;
             }
         } else {
-            fprintf(stderr, "Error converting from %s to %s\n",
-                    disc_charset, nl_langinfo(CODESET));
+            fprintf(stderr, "Error converting text from %s to %s\n",
+                    disc_charset, sys_charset);
         }
         iconv_close (cd);
     } else {
-        fprintf(stderr,
-                "Error converting from %s (not supported by this system)\n",
-                disc_charset);
+        fprintf(stderr, "Error converting text from %s to %s. Not supported\n",
+                disc_charset, sys_charset);
     }
 #else
     /* avoid warnings (__attribute__ ((unused)) is too verbose/non standard) */
     (void)src; (void)dst; (void)srclen; (void)dstlen;
+    fprintf(stderr,
+            "Error converting text. libiconv missing\n",
+            disc_charset);
 #endif
     return ret;
 }
+
 /*********************************************************************************
  *                          Internal structures
  *********************************************************************************/
@@ -1088,6 +1128,7 @@
 int main(int argc, char** argv)
 {
     setlocale(LC_ALL,"");
+    sys_charset=get_charset();
 
     get_options(argc, argv);