From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Reason for SetFileApisToOEM call in dcrt0.cc?
13 May 1998 14:49:01 -0700
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To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com
Cc: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)

Do any of you understand why SetFileApisToOEM is called in dcrt0.cc
(dll_crt0_1)???  I don't.  Reading the MSDN info for the function
didn't help matters -- it claims that (in my words):

The normal defaults are OEM code page for 8-bit console functions
and ANSI code page for others.  A warning says that strings may not be
compatible between these and that the best thing to do is to use the
Unicode console functions and then use the ANSI code page for
everything.

We seem to be using the 8-bit console functions but setting the code
page to OEM for all functions.  I'm not convinced this is the right
thing for Cygwin32 to be doing.

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com