X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 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: <4AE2C97A.3080608@gmail.com> References: <4AE235E4.2060005@gmail.com> <84fc9c000910231559y194a9ccfyfb9414f8ed04a361@mail.gmail.com> <4AE24BE4.8020207@gmail.com> <4AE281BC.1040200@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <416096c60910232247tb0ed351l2d542125bf566d7e@mail.gmail.com> <20091024085445.GW16678@calimero.vinschen.de> <20091024090651.GX16678@calimero.vinschen.de> <4AE2C97A.3080608@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:44:44 +0100 Message-ID: <416096c60910241144u58db0c27m8e4ccad852fb9beb@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: dg-error vs. i18n? From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 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