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Date:	Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:44:44 +0100
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Subject:	Re: dg-error vs. i18n?
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2009/10/24 Dave Korn:
> =C2=A0BTW, I don't see why this is anything other than a gcc testsuite pr=
oblem; if
> we want to use UTF-8 as the default encoding in the C locale, who's to sa=
y we
> shouldn't?

POSIX certainly allows it, but glibc's behaviour has to be taken into
account as well. If there was a de-facto standard of C meaning ASCII
that people rely on, Cygwin would be better off going with that.

> which it was for most systems until
> fairly recently, but now it's not just us but some of the linux distros a=
re
> moving to UTF-8 by default as well and they have the same problem.

You mean they're switching the unadorned "C" locale to UTF-8? That
would be great. Have you got examples?

Andy

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