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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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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