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On May 9 19:06, Denis Excoffier wrote: > On 2014-05-09 11:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On May 7 19:39, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > Thanks for the report. I made a dumb Copy/paste error. This should > > be fixed in the today's snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > Indeed, it is working now. > > Also, i have noticed that 'getent group' produces this line: > > +Utilisateurs authentifiÃÂs:S-1-5-11:11: > (with \303\251 meaning é, like under UTF-8) > > while 'getent passwd' produces (among other lines): > > +SERVICE RÃSEAU:*:20:20:,S-1-5-20:/:/sbin/nologin > (with \311 meaning É, like under ISO-Latin) > > This is with LC_CTYPE=fr_FR, no /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/passwd > and /etc/group with only one line each, domain member with currently no > network connected, under Cygwin 32bits 'Just Me', installed on top of > XP SP3 32bits [french only], with snapshot '20140508 19:51:25â, > and all packages up-to-date. > > If i setenv LC_CTYPE C, or unsetenv LC_CTYPE, i also get UTF-8 for > 'getent passwd' (ie for both). > > What bothers me is that under LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (or fr_FR@euro), the > getent output is not consistent. I can't explain that. In both cases, getent calls setlocale(LC_ALL, ""). In both cases, the account information comes as UTF-16 string from the OS and is converted to multibyte in Cygwin. The only (vague) idea I have is that this may be a result of caching. If the first account ("authenticated users") has been fetched while LANG was still set to "C" or "C.UTF-8", it would explain this discrepancy. Which shows that using non UTF-8 locales is not such a good idea. There is a chicken-egg problem. Early initialization always uses UTF-8 for hopefully obvious reasons. Using UTF-8 in all multibyte scenarios is really the way to go in future. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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