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On Sep 29 05:27, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/9/28 Corinna Vinschen
> > The downside is that a user, who needs to work under the default ANSI
> > codepage for some reason, has to know the name of the default ANSI
> > codepage.  Right now any user who needs the default ANSI codepage can
> > simply set LANG to some language code and go ahead, without having to
> > know the number.  With your solution, that wouldn't be possible anymore
> > and the user would have to figure out the default ANSI codepage on the
> > system before being able to use it.
> 
> How about an explicit "ANSI" charset that maps to GetACP()? And "OEM"
> for GetOEMCP()? Those would make easy replacements for the
> CYGWIN=codepage:[ansi|oem] option.

Not for 1.7.1.  Maybe later, if there's any actual demand.


Corinna

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