Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:21:09 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Status of nl_langinfo and CODESET Message-ID: <20041027212109.GP957@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <418000A2 DOT 8000006 AT breame DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <418000A2.8000006@breame.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:10:10PM +0100, Colin JN Breame wrote: >I've been investigating the dreaded "Can't recode string" error in >subversion. This error occurs when a string contains characters that >cannot be converted into the equivalent characters in the users locale. > >It seems that nl_langinfo always returns US-ASCII (at least on my >system), even if LC_CTYPE is set or the locale is something else entirely. > >Looking at the archive indicates that cygwin doesn't have "proper" >locale support. Does anyone know what would be required to give cygwin >"proper" locale support? Someone would have to investigate what was missing and program it in. To Cygwin. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/