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Subject:	RE: Cyrillics support in Cygwin???
Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:26:44 +0400
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>
> ls do work. try 'ls -lN'. not very straightforward, but it do work.
> the same for vim, ':se isp=@,128-254', for example.
>
> full locale support is a worthy goal, but, as long as it more newlib's
> issue than cygwin's, don't expect it will appear tomorrow.
>
> newlib's used not only by cygwin, but by lots of other platforms too,
> including various embedded targets, so such changes as locale support
> should be made with a very big care.
>

Well, you asked for an example :-) Some tools have means to work around
unsuported locale; some not (how would you make grep [[:lower:]] work for
cyrillic?)

I remember somebody said there was almost ready implementation of locale for
cygwin; it was almost an year ago. Just curious, what is the current status.

-andrej


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