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On 04/02/2010 04:27 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote:
> Why does <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html> talk all
> about a charset of UTF-8, then "For a list of locales supported by
> your Windows machine, use the new locale -a command", which shows
> "utf8" (which matches my XP machine)?

UTF-8 is the canonical name of the charset, but utf8 is an acceptable
synonym in most contexts, and is much easier to type.  So, when it comes
to specifying your charset, the suffix ".utf8" is used to request the
UTF-8 charset.

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