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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:49:05 -0400
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Subject: Re: The C locale
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> There never was any ISO-8859-1 "=C3=85=C2=A4" in the first place, only one
> a-umlaut entered in WindowsExplorer (in the expected way) and correctly
> interpreted by a UTF8-capable terminal which is doing his job.
>
> Nobody ever intended to write a Latin1 string with the meaning of
> "A-ring + currency symbol" which has been translated by chance in a
> a-umlaut...

Yes, but it's working because you (1) lied about your locale (using C
when your terminal is set to UTF-8) and (2) happen to have your
terminal set to UTF-8, which is how Cygwin happens to be encoding the
character.   It's a big accident and stops working if you were
actually using a non-UTF-8 terminal and locale (hopefully matching
ones).

--=20
Mark J. Reed <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>

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