On Sep 8 18:45, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-patches wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 10:40:34 +0200 > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Sep 7 13:45, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-patches wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 01:04:13 +0900 > > > > > Chages: > > > > > - If global locale is set, it takes precedence. > > > > > > > > Changes: > > > > - Use __get_current_locale() instead of __get_global_locale(). > > > > - Fix a bug for ISO-8859-* charset. > > > > > > Changes: > > > - Use envblock if it is passed to CreateProcess in spawn.cc. > > > > For the time being and to make at least *some* progress and with my > > upcoming "away from keyboard"-time , I pushed the gist of my patch, > > replacing the locale evaluating code in fhandler_tty with the function > > __eval_codepage_from_internal_charset in its most simple form. > > I didn't touch anything else, given that this discussion is still > > ongoing. > > Your patch pushed does the magic! > > Even cygterm works even though the code does not check environment. > > The point is here. > > @@ -1977,9 +1807,6 @@ fhandler_pty_slave::fixup_after_exec () > if (!close_on_exec ()) > fixup_after_fork (NULL); /* No parent handle required. */ > > - /* Set locale */ > - setup_locale (); > - > /* Hook Console API */ > #define DO_HOOK(module, name) \ > if (!name##_Orig) \ > > Without this deletion, term_code_page is determined when > cygwin shell is executed. Since it is in fixup_after_exec(), > setlocale() does not called yet in the shell. As a result, > term_code_page cannot be determined correctly. > > In your new patch, term_code_page is determined when the first > non-cygwin program is execed in the shell. The shell process > already calls setlocale(), so term_code_page can be determined > using global locale. > > Thanks for the excellent idea! > > Only the problem I noticed is that cygterm does not work if the > shell does not call setlocale(). This happens if the shell is > non-cygwin program, for example, cmd.exe, however, it is unusual > case.
This is unexpected, but I'm glad this could be much simplfied. Thanks, Corinna