X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:54:45 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: dg-error vs. i18n? Message-ID: <20091024085445.GW16678@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4AE235E4.2060005@gmail.com> <84fc9c000910231559y194a9ccfyfb9414f8ed04a361@mail.gmail.com> <4AE24BE4.8020207@gmail.com> <4AE281BC.1040200@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <416096c60910232247tb0ed351l2d542125bf566d7e@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: <416096c60910232247tb0ed351l2d542125bf566d7e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) 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 Oct 24 06:47, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/10/24 Charles Wilson: > > [cross-posted to cygwin list] > > > > Background for cygwin list: Dave discovered a problem running some of > > the gcc tests.  The tests were run in the "C" locale, but in so doing > > they assumed an ascii encoding (specifically, that "'" would match ' in > > test patterns -- but the program actually emitted those fancy curled > > quotes which did not match '). > > Do you mean they explicitly set the "C" locale? > > Hmm. Now that we've got the "C.UTF-8" default, "C" could actually go > back to mean ASCII. With no locale variables set, the console and > filesystem would use UTF-8 anyway, as would applications that call > setlocale(,""). Only applications that don't call setlocale() would be > using the "C" locale and hence ASCII, as but that'd be fine as either > they don't care about it or they actually expect to be using ASCII. Oh boy. That's not just an easy one liner patch. Can I get a STC which shows the aforementioned problem? 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