Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/10/24/07:27:48
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 24 10:31, Dave Korn wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>>> Can I get a STC which shows the aforementioned problem?
>> BTW, I don't see why this is anything other than a gcc testsuite problem; if
>> we want to use UTF-8 as the default encoding in the C locale, who's to say we
>> shouldn't? I think it's just up to the testsuite to set the right flags for
>> the known target platform, isn't it? The only thing I think we might benefit
>> from is a "US-ASCII" alias for CP437, perhaps.
>
> Erm... *iff* we add US-ASCII encoding it should be an equivalent
> to "ASCII", shouldn't it?
Don't ask me, I don't understand any of this stuff. I mean, yes, probably
so, I just thought US-ASCII might be something different from ASCII and that
the difference might be that it implied the US code page. I guess I should
have said 'a "US-ASCII" alias, standing for whatever it ought to stand for.'
cheers,
DaveK
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