On Dec 1 23:53, Thomas Wolff wrote:
* What about the Cygwin.bat LANG setting? The last comment on this
was Andy voting for LANG rather than LC_CTYPE, which I can agree
with; several Linux distributions set LANG by default.
... The common proposal was
LANG=C.UTF-8, so just manifesting explicitly what is the internal
default anyway. I don't think it can be harmful and even if it may
not be necessary for many applications, it may be helpful for some
and thus avoid trouble; also it's the usual thing to do by Linuces
that use UTF-8 as a default.
Yeah, but they don't have it hardcoded in the installer. As discussed,
we should move the creation of cygwin.bat out of setup.exe soon, and then
we can set LANG.
Even then I would prefer if some package (base-files probably) would
two files:
/etc/profile.d/lang.sh:
export LANG=C.UTF-8
/etc/profile.d/lang.csh:
setenv LANG C.UTF-8