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Re: [1.7] setlocale utf-8


On Aug 20 14:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 20 14:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Aug 20 14:36, Reini Urban wrote:
> > > Can we please clarify some oy my problems with our new locale support in
> > > http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html
> > > 
> > > LC_ALL=utf-8 does not work. Must contain the language, same as on linux.
> > > LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8 does not work. UTF-8 must be uppercase, in contrary to linux.
> > > LC_ALL=UTF-8 does not work. Must contain the language, like
> > > en_US.UTF-8, same as on linux.
> > > 
> > > I'm working around that now in the new perl.
> > 
> > I'm confused.  Which one of them do you work around?  And then again,
> > can we skip this minor problem until after 1.7.1 and you just use
> > <lang>[_<territory>].UTF-8 for nowm, as defined and documented?
> 
> Never mind.  It's no big problem to allow lowercase "utf-8" as on Linux.
> I'll fix that.

FYI, I proposed the patch on the newlib list:
http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2009/msg00840.html


Corinna

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