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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:27:29 +0100
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Subject: Re: The C locale
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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2009/9/28 Corinna Vinschen
>> My conclusion is as follows as a result of hearing other Japanese
>> people's opinion:
>>
>> LANG=3Dja -> UTF-8
>> LANG=3Dja_JP -> UTF-8
>>
>> Because, we specify "eucJP" explicitly when we need it.
>
> Hmm.
>
> That's an interesting point.
>
> In theory this sounds like a good idea to be used for all locales which
> don't specify the charset explicitely, because that results in using the
> same charset, "UTF-8", for all such locales. =C2=A0"C", "ja" or "en_US"
> would all default to UTF-8.

Hmm, there's much to be said for that.

> The downside is that a user, who needs to work under the default ANSI
> codepage for some reason, has to know the name of the default ANSI
> codepage. =C2=A0Right now any user who needs the default ANSI codepage can
> simply set LANG to some language code and go ahead, without having to
> know the number. =C2=A0With your solution, that wouldn't be possible anym=
ore
> and the user would have to figure out the default ANSI codepage on the
> system before being able to use it.

How about an explicit "ANSI" charset that maps to GetACP()? And "OEM"
for GetOEMCP()? Those would make easy replacements for the
CYGWIN=3Dcodepage:[ansi|oem] option.

Andy

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