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Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:29:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Guido Milanese <gmilanese AT mclink DOT it>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, guido DOT milanese AT unicatt DOT it
Subject: Re: Sort - locale: cygwin_nt-5.0
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On Tue, 17 May 2005, Guido Milanese wrote:

> I hope this is not a FAQ -- I duly checked FAQs and googled for a while.
> From some messages, I found that LOCALE is not supported by cygwin. Is
> this true also for the version I mention in the subject?

The "version" that you mention in the subject just says that you're
running Cygwin on Win2k.  It doesn't say anything about the actual version
of Cygwin.  For instructions on how to report your Cygwin version (and the
relevant environment information) see <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.

> My problem is basically related to "sort": I tried to export LC_ALL,
> LC_COLLATE and LANG for French and Italian but to no success.
>
> Is this possible under cygwin? I normally use Linux, but I installed
> cygwin on a computer of my University where I must use Windows.

There's very little support for LOCALE settings in Cygwin.  Some
applications will switch the language of the help messages, etc, to the
extent gettext() supports it.  I don't believe sort has locale-specific
collate support -- the coreutils maintainer might be a better person to
answer that.
	Igor
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