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Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 14:37:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tim McDaniel <tmcd AT panix DOT com>
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Subject: Re: UTF-8 versus utf8
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On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Tim McDaniel:
>> Why does <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html> talk
>> all about a charset of UTF-8, then "For a list of locales supported
>> by your Windows machine, use the new locale -a command", which
>> shows "utf8" (which matches my XP machine)?
...
>> So why doesn't "locale -a" report the canonical name?
>
> Btw, what did you mean by "utf8 (which matches my XP machine)"

That page points to
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#locale>, which gives
sample output of "locale -a" that has only utf8.  I was trying to
express that "locale -a" run under Cygwin on my XP machine agrees with
thtat in outputting "utf8".

Danihel Lindecolina
-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd AT panix DOT com

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