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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 21:10:42 +0100
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Subject: Re: The C locale
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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Eric Blake:
>> A rather important exception is 'ls', which seems to have its own
>> hardcoded limitation to 7 bits for the C locale: anything non-ASCII is
>> shown as '? there'.
>
> That's only because the current build of cygwin ls pre-dates a lot of the
> locale support. =C2=A0I'm hoping that when I get time to build coreutils =
7.5,
> that ls will start printing characters marked printable in the current lo=
cale.

Don't worry, on 1.7 it already works fine in locales other than "C".
And it turns out that the restriction with the latter is due to newlib
being inconsistent: whereas the conversion functions use ISO-8859-1,
the ctype functions insist on ASCII, i.e. the isbla() functions return
0 for anything above 0x7F.

So in the C locale we've currently got UTF-8 for filenames, ISO-8859-1
for the console and multibyte conversions, and ASCII for the ctype
functions.

Andy

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