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Re: "C" UTF-8 trouble
On Oct 7 18:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 7 14:50, Andy Koppe wrote:
> > 2009/10/7 Corinna Vinschen:
> > > $ ./nll
> > > ANSI_X3.4-1968
> >
> > I guess that's supposed to mean "ASCII"? Aargh.
>
> Yes, that's ASCII for you on Linux :)
>
> Funny enough, Solaris 10 returns... not "ASCII", not "US-ASCII", not
> "ANSI_X3.4-1968"..., no, it returns "646". That's the ISO number, afaik.
> It also returns "ISO8859-1" instead of "ISO-8859-1". I'm not overly
> concerned about returning not exactly what Linux returns right now.
>
> > > At least, from the above it looks like all uppercase. ?The KOI8s would
> > > be covered by a translation table.
> > >
> > > The problem is, we *must* draw a line somewhere.
> >
> > I agree, better to just stick with __locale_charset(), unless problems
> > do arise. FWIW, vim works fine with *.KOI8 locales.
>
> That's good.
I applied the patch to nl_langinfo so it returns __locale_charset()
now on Cygwin.
Corinna
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