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Re: [1.7] Invalid UTF8 while creating a file -> cannot delete?
On Sep 23 14:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep 23 13:34, Andy Koppe wrote:
> > 2009/9/23 Corinna Vinschen:
> > > I have a local patch ready to use the ANSI codepage by default in the
> > > "C" locale. ?It appears to work nicely and has the additional positive
> > > side effect to simplify the code in a few places.
> > >
> > > If I only new that eastern language users could happily live with
> > > this change as well!
> >
> > Here's an idea to circumvent the DBCS troubles: default to UTF-8 when
> > no charset is specified in the locale and the ANSI charset isn't
> > singlebyte.
> >
> > Based on the following grounds:
> > - Full CJK support (and more) out of the box.
> > - DBCSs can't have worked very well in 1.5 in the first place, because
> > the shell and most applications weren't aware of double-byte
> > characters. Hence backward compatibility is less of an issue here.
> > - Applications that don't (yet) work with UTF-8 are also unlikely to
> > work correctly with DBCSs.
> > - Iwamuro Motonori asked for it.
>
> Yeah, I was tinkering with this idea, too, but it's much more tricky to
> implement.
>
> I'll think about it.
Turns out, it's not complicated at all.
However, if we default to UTF-8 for a subset of languages anyway, it
gets even more interesting to ask, why not for all languages? Isn't it
better in the long run to have the same default for all Cygwin
installations?
I'm really wondering if we shouldn't simply default to UTF-8 as charset
throughout, in the application, the console, and for the filename
conversion. Yes, not all applications will work OOTB with chars > 0x7f,
but it was always a bug to make any assumptions for non-ASCII chars
in the C locale. Applications can be fixed, right?
Corinna
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