X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: cygwin started speaking German today Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:35:44 +0200 Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <7856072A9D04C24B82DFE2B1112FE38A0C27492B56 AT MCHP058A DOT global-ad DOT net> <201109081246 DOT 23238 DOT bruno AT clisp DOT org> <4E68AF35 DOT 9030002 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> <201109082344 DOT 55506 DOT bruno AT clisp DOT org> <4E69D9EA DOT 2050004 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> <20110909145921 DOT GA27289 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com * Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 9 Sep 2011 16:59:21 +0200) > And above all, there *is* an official way for the user to align the > Cygwin locale with the Windows locale [...] Misses the point. Users who chose to have a specific language environment most likely want to have this choice of language for all their applications. All localized applications should honor that and there should be no need to explicitly "align" anything. This is the way it's handled on Linux and Windows. Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple