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On 03/21/2011 03:46 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Hmm.  So we have a choice for the cygwin version, for choosing the
> default dos cp when the user specifies -iso and doesn't explicitly
> specify the cp: either
>   1) follow the unix behavior: just simply default to -437.
>   2) follow the dos behavior: use GetConsoleOutputCP() as currently
>      coded.
>   3) Do something completely different, and use GetACP().
>   4) Do something completely different, and use nl_langinfo or setlocale.
>
> I think #3 is a bad idea, since it creates a new semantic just /because/.
>
> #4 would make sense if we were designing from scratch -- but then, we'd
> really just be re-implementing iconv(1).  I don't think that's a
> valuable exercise, and besides:
>
>> There is no intention to add other conversions. And I don't plan to
>> remove the options in the near future.
> I think I lean towards #1 for this specific corner case.  In general,
> cygwin ports should act like their unix conterparts, even if there is a
> "native" win32 port with different semantics, IMO.
>
Hi,

I agree with you. Same as Linux is better on Cygwin.

SunOS dos2unix determined the code page on non-i386 systems via the 
keyboard type (See 
http://manpages.unixforum.co.uk/man-pages/unix/solaris-10-11_06/1/dos2unix-man-page.html). 
I didn't want to implement that and defaulted to cp437, which is also 
default on i386 SunOS.

Erwin

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