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. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
