X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E8C48A9.3020902@cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:08:09 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin started speaking German today References: <7856072A9D04C24B82DFE2B1112FE38A0C27492B56@MCHP058A.global-ad.net> <201109081246.23238.bruno@clisp.org> <4E68AF35.9030002@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <201109082344.55506.bruno@clisp.org> <4E69D9EA.2050004@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20110909145921.GA27289@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E6F7AA1.4090808@redhat.com> <20111004122837.GA27229@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E8B0007.5020500@cwilson.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <4E8B0007.5020500@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 10/4/2011 8:45 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: > However, one issue is that windows basically will always have SOME > setting -- even if just "English". Which would cause locale to report > 'en_US' or something. So you'd never actually SEE the "default default" > of C.UTF-8 take effect. You'd see it if you unset LANG and an application calls setlocale(LC_ALL, ""). Linux is similar. In Fedora 14, for instance, the standard startup files set LANG via /etc/sysconfig/i18n; but there is also a "default default" of C that's used if you unset LANG. Ken -- 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