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Subject: Re: LC_ALL=ru_RU.cp1251 ls -l encoding problem.
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On 6 September 2010 21:25, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> =C2=A0Am 06.09.2010 11:07, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>
>> On Sep =C2=A05 21:16, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
>>>
>>> As you can see user/group always printed in UTF-8
>>> and discard LC_ALL=3Dcp1251.
>>>
>>> =C2=A0 $ LC_ALL=3Dru_RU.cp1251 mintty
>>
>> The problem is, what is the encoding of the /etc/passwd file itself?
>> If it's UTF-8, it's UTF-8. =C2=A0If you want to use another encoding
>> throughout, you would have to generate the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
>> files in that other encoding as well.
>
> Which is a problem if different users have different locale preferences, =
and
> also a problem to configure for non-experts.

True, but you'd get the same problem on Linux, i.e. it's basically
assumed that the same encoding is used across the whole system (and
UTF-8 is the only sensible choice for that, except in limited
circumstances).

That doesn't need to stop Cygwin from doing better, though, as of
course it does with filenames already.


> What about making the functions that access user/group information aware =
of
> this, i.e. interpreting the files as UTF-8 and interpreting
> parameters/results according to current locale?
> (getpwuid, getpwnam, getlogin, ...)

Makes sense, me thinks.

Andy

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