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On 3/19/2009 12:22 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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.

That seems bad.

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

Or maybe the codepage could default to UTF-8 if setlocale() isn't called?

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