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On Mar 19 20:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 19 11:48, David Rothenberger wrote:
> >> Not exactly.  However, assuming you have a file using characters which
> >> are not in your current ANSI codeset, then you could only manipulate
> >> that file when setting LANG="xx_YY.UTF-8", and only in applications
> >> which call setlocale().
> >
> > I have no idea whether du calls setlocale() or not. I think you're  
> > saying that today, with codepage:utf8, it is able to get sizes for files  
> > using non-ANSI characters, but if codepage is removed, it would not be  
> > able to do so unless it called setlocale(). Is that right?
> 
> Right.

...unless Cygwin itself would call setlocale().


Corinna

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