On Jan 23 15:51, Andy Koppe wrote: > 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.
I applied a patch which handles the characters 0x5c and 0cfe differently if the charset is set to "SJIS", and I applied Nayuta's patch to newlib's loadlocale to allow "CP932" as charset. So there will be a choice in Cygwin 1.7.2. 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
