X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 05:26:58 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <1614186427.20111006052658@mtu-net.ru> To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: [OT] Re: cygwin started speaking German today In-Reply-To: <20111004142920.GA15757@calimero.vinschen.de> 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> <20111004142920.GA15757@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> IIRC, that discussion occurred before the 'locale' application (was >> written|got smarter). Sure, I think C.UTF-8 should be the "default >> default" but the arguments in favor of respecting the users' own Windows >> i18n settings make sense. > Does it? Even if I'm running a german OS, I absolutely hate to see > german diagnostic output from gcc, and I absolutely hate certain > programs using non-ASCII chars in output. (In)famous examples are > Unicode quoting chars rather than ' or ", or using the Unicode hyphen > character rather than -. But that's just me. Not just you. We have a team of a developer from greece, a co-developer and tester from Sweden, former project leader and consultant from USA and a number of assistants from different other countries. Indeed, we communicate project details and error reports in English... Any other language would be inappropriate... -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 06.10.2011, <05:21> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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