X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:02:56 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: The C locale Message-ID: <20090929070256.GA15296@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <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> <3f0ad08d0909262021u5fe79873r65850865166ce40f@mail.gmail.com> <3f0ad08d0909280903t5caaf611ie4049a73beb93f06@mail.gmail.com> <20090928161626.GC8378@calimero.vinschen.de> <416096c60909282127h775c674n89fa9b0a6d55d221@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <416096c60909282127h775c674n89fa9b0a6d55d221@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) 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 On Sep 29 05:27, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/9/28 Corinna Vinschen > > The downside is that a user, who needs to work under the default ANSI > > codepage for some reason, has to know the name of the default ANSI > > codepage.  Right now any user who needs the default ANSI codepage can > > simply set LANG to some language code and go ahead, without having to > > know the number.  With your solution, that wouldn't be possible anymore > > and the user would have to figure out the default ANSI codepage on the > > system before being able to use it. > > How about an explicit "ANSI" charset that maps to GetACP()? And "OEM" > for GetOEMCP()? Those would make easy replacements for the > CYGWIN=codepage:[ansi|oem] option. Not for 1.7.1. Maybe later, if there's any actual demand. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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