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On Jul 20 21:13, Eric Blake wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> 
> > > > > I'm running the testcase on XP SP3.  I have an idea why it fails for
> > > > > you.  The eucJP codepage 20932 is not installed by default on US and
> > > > > other western language systems by default up to Windows 2003.  What you
> > > > > have to do is, open the "Regional and Language Options" control panel,
> > > > > go to the "Advanced" tab, scroll the "Code page conversion tables" list
> > > > > down to the 20932 entry, select it and install it.
> 
> Cool.  That worked to make the gnulib tests pass when installed.  We ought to 
> make sure this trick is documented on the page of supported charsets 
> (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html#setup-locale-problems)

Care to write this up?  Btw., I checked on Windows 2003, and it installs
all codepages by default.  So this is only a problem on XP and older.


Corinna

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