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Re: oem/ansi codepage support
>>> On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 00:01:29 -0500
>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:
> The patch looks good but isn't there an LC_something environment
> variable that is equivalent to this on Linux.
LC_* environment variables aren't equivalent to this.
I recommend that we use the CYGWIN env variable.
On Linux, these variables control the behavior of C library
functions related to i18n: mbstowcs, strcoll, strftime, and so on.
They can't control behavior of kernel functions: the console
device and the file system. Egor's patch corresponds to the
latter on Cygwin.
The Cygwin DLL has C library functions and kernel functions, so
it may be good idea that these variables control both. This,
however, is meaningful when C library functions are accommodated
to i18n.
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| AIST Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
| HOKURIKU School of Information Science
o_/ 1990 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology