X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E8CA584.9000404@xs4all.nl> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:44:20 +0200 From: Erwin Waterlander User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; 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: <4E69D9EA.2050004@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20110909145921.GA27289@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E6F7AA1.4090808@redhat.com> <20111004122837.GA27229@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E8B0007.5020500@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20111004142920.GA15757@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E8B4A86.5000607@xs4all.nl> <20111004182042.GA22299@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E8C7FFB.6060707@xs4all.nl> <20111005162714.GA14661@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E8C948D.4070707@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4E8CA0AF.50805@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <4E8CA0AF.50805@cornell.edu> 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 Ken Brown schreef, Op 5-10-2011 20:23: > > I think you're mixing two questions that should be kept separate. The > first is how /etc/profile.d/lang.{sh,csh} should set LANG. That's a > question that the Cygwin developers and/or base-files maintainer need > to decide. The second is whether libintl should override Cygwin's > locale settings. Isn't the answer clearly no? Why can't this be > fixed (in opposition to Bruno, if necessary) before a final decision > is made about /etc/profile.d/lang.{sh,csh}? > > I don't recall any complaints from Cygwin users about C.UTF-8 being > the default, but there have already been several complaints about the > new behavior of libintl. > Indeed, these are two separate issues. My preference is that Cygwin follows by default regional the setting of Windows w.r.t. language. So on my Dutch Windows I prefer nl_NL.UTF-8 over C.UTF-8. Second, I prefer that libintl follows Cygwin's regional settins, and not Windows'. -- Erwin Waterlander -- 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