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On Sep 29 23:13, IWAMURO Motonori wrote:
> 2009/9/29 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>:
> > 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.
> 
> If the problem is a problem of 1.5->1.7 migration, how about building
> in the wizard which sets the locale environment variable to setup.exe?
> Is not it proper as the solution?

We don't want to enforce the usage of the ANSI codepage after
installation.  Default should be "C" with UTF-8 charset.  Setting
LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG is the choice of the user.


Corinna

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