X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SARE_SUB_ENC_UTF8,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BB66FD6.5080402@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:29:42 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Fedora/3.0.4-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, tmcd@panix.com Subject: Re: UTF-8 versus utf8 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7D3D2027E87B92C018F175DB" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 --------------enig7D3D2027E87B92C018F175DB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 04/02/2010 04:27 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote: > Why does 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. --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enig7D3D2027E87B92C018F175DB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAku2b9gACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAKYgCfbNEPGmXxTEx3oY7veu9r/Qrk toYAoLbasJhDe+wksqWFl+I9YMCs0eal =X8Yt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7D3D2027E87B92C018F175DB--