X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090926091504.GA7275@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <416096c60909071308qc5ff057sbe9cb1dbc270554f@mail.gmail.com> <416096c60909081449r1fe024dbm7b82a3719be05e9e@mail.gmail.com> <20090921103758.GE20981@calimero.vinschen.de> <416096c60909211420g4ac8ea93l80fc1f00dcd5c0f3@mail.gmail.com> <3f0ad08d0909240003j435818e7h6f7cde2e26188f7e@mail.gmail.com> <20090924073441.GA30267@calimero.vinschen.de> <3f0ad08d0909240237s518de248jee409b731711404a@mail.gmail.com> <20090924095701.GC30851@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090924100006.GD30851@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090926091504.GA7275@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:21:25 +0900 Message-ID: <3f0ad08d0909262021u5fe79873r65850865166ce40f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: The C locale From: IWAMURO Motonori To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Hi. > the default ANSI and OEM codepage on Japanese Windows systems is > 932/SJIS, right? Yes. > LANG="C" -> UTF-8 (snip) > LANG="ja_JP.SJIS" -> SJIS It's good. > LANG="ja" -> EUCJP > LANG="ja_JP" -> EUCJP Hmmm, It is a difficult problem. I think selecting UTF-8 is good because eucJP is legacy. But, for interoperability with other UNIX-like system(*), I don't think selecting UTF-8 is good. * Solaris: ja, ja_JP -> eucJP * Linux (Debian): ja -> Unknown, ja_JP -> eucJP I need to think more... -- 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