Hi. > the default ANSI and OEM codepage on Japanese Windows systems is > 932/SJIS, right?
Yes. > LANG="C" -> UTF-8 (snip) > LANG="ja_JP.SJIS" -> SJIS It's good. > LANG="ja" -> EUCJP > LANG="ja_JP" -> EUCJP Hmmm, It is a difficult problem. I think selecting UTF-8 is good because eucJP is legacy. But, for interoperability with other UNIX-like system(*), I don't think selecting UTF-8 is good. * Solaris: ja, ja_JP -> eucJP * Linux (Debian): ja -> Unknown, ja_JP -> eucJP I need to think more... -- 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
