X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4BF55DF8.2090007@towo.net> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 22:27:43 +0900 Message-ID: Subject: Re: LANG=ja_JP.Shift_JIS From: rushojp To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 2010/5/21 Andy Koppe : > > So why do you need to set it to ja_JP.Shift_JIS if ja_JP.CP932 and > ja_JP.SJIS do the same thing? There is no serious reason. I think IANA name is more famous. > I'm not convinced that adding Shift_JIS to Cygwin as another alias for > CP932 is a good idea, because they aren't actually the same, e.g. > iconv treats them as different charsets. The SJIS alias is dodgy > enough already. Yes, I know it is difficult problem. @centos5.5 $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f Shift_JIS -t UTF-16LE|hexdump 0000000 00a5 0020 203e 0020 301c 000000a $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f SJIS -t UTF-16LE|hexdump 0000000 00a5 0020 203e 0020 301c 000000a $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f CP932 -t UTF-16LE|hexdump 0000000 005c 0020 007e 0020 ff5e 000000a $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f Windows-31J -t UTF-16LE|hexdump 0000000 005c 0020 007e 0020 ff5e 000000a @cygwin-1.7 $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f Shift_JIS -t UTF-16LE|hexdump 0000000 00a5 0020 203e 0020 301c 000000a $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f SJIS -t UTF-16LE|hexdump 0000000 00a5 0020 203e 0020 301c 000000a $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f CP932 -t UTF-16LE|hexdump 0000000 005c 0020 007e 0020 301c 000000a $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f Windows-31J -t UTF-16LE|hexdump iconv: conversion from Windows-31J unsupported iconv: try 'iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings -- 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