Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/07/20/11:45:32
On Jul 20 14:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 20 06:21, Eric Blake wrote:
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> > According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/20/2009 6:08 AM:
> > > I'm running the testcase on XP SP3. I have an idea why it fails for
> > > you. The eucJP codepage 20932 is not installed by default on US and
> > > other western language systems by default up to Windows 2003. What you
> > > have to do is, open the "Regional and Language Options" control panel,
> > > go to the "Advanced" tab, scroll the "Code page conversion tables" list
> > > down to the 20932 entry, select it and install it.
> > >
> > > This is not necessary anymore startying with Vista, which comes with
> > > almost all important conversion tables preinstalled.
> >
> > Hmm. That means we should probably teach setlocale to fail when trying to
> > select an eucJP codeset if we detect that the eucJP tables are not (yet)
> > installed.
>
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC
>
> > if I build a cygwin package on a system without the code page, the gnulib
> > test skips, but knows (or can be taught) to assume that cygwin's mbrtowc
> > is not broken
>
> Why is it a problem to do that in the current incarnation? It's a known
> fact that Cygwin 1.7 will handle these charsets (eucJP, eucKR, SJIS,
> GBK, Big5).
I applied a patch which lets setlocale fail if the codepage necessary
for the conversion isn't installed.
HTH,
Corinna
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