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Re: API request: export internal_setlocale
Corinna Vinschen:
> I can add that as cygwin_internal(CW_INT_SETLOCALE), that's not a big
> problem.
Thanks very much for implementing that.
> However, are you aware that this might result in weird
> problems?
Ah yes, I seem to remember a rather exhaustive (and exhausting)
discussion on that. ;)
> Names of files (objects in general) which are already open in
> the application will potentially be using the wrong encoding afterwards.
But file descriptors returned by open() should be fine, right?
> If the application uses only ASCII chars up to the point it calls
> cygwin_internal(CW_INT_SETLOCALE) that shouldn't matter, but I don't
> give any guarantees that this will work as expected.
Understood.
Thanks again,
Andy