On 23 January 2010 15:07, Corinna Vinschen: > Ouch. I understand now. Standard SJIS is *really* different from > Microsoft CP932 in two code points: > > CP932 0x5c == U+005E > SJIS 0x5c == U+00A5 > > CP932 0x7e == U+007E > SJIS 0x7e == U+203E
Aargh! I wonder what that would do to DOS paths and stuff like ~username. > Would it be a valid help for your case if Cygwin's SJIS conversion would > convert 0x5c to U+00A5 and 0x7e to 203E, so that the SJIS conversion > would be really correct *and* bijective? I think that's the correct thing to do, but it'll likely break other stuff. Seems SJIS really isn't suited for Unix command line use. All the more reason to make EUC-JP the default for "ja_JP" I guess. > To me this sounds like the > better solution than adding a CP932 charset identifier. I agree. Simply aliasing CP932 to SJIS is wrong, because they are quite different character sets. Supporting CP932 as a charset in its own right might be worth considering though, especially as that's the standard charset on Japanese Cygwin 1.5. Andy -- 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
