>>> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:06:15 +0100 >>> Corinna Vinschen said:
> As for the default charset, now that we get extended NLS > support, there are packages out there which have messages > files for ja_JP encoded in eucJP. These are not shown > correctly if SJIS is the default. The runtime library of NLS convert messages encoded in EUC-JP to the character encoding obtained by nl_langinfo(CODESET). We can properly see Japanese messages. > > There is no difference between SJIS and eucJP on Cygwin > > command line for the sake of the implementation of i18n API. > > If there is any difference, we should correct it. To change > > the default to eucJP isn't adequate. > > I don't understand this one. Andy said `Seems SJIS really isn't suited for Unix command line use.' I said there is no problem, no difference with EUC-JP, and no need to change the default. > The difference is the character encoding which is compatible > with other POSIX systems in the "ja_JP" locale when eucJP is > the default. The default character encoding in the Japanese locale has become UTF-8 in other POSIX systems. In most of all Linux distributions, the default is UTF-8. In OpenSolaris, the default is also UTF-8. On the other hand, the default is SJIS in HP-UX. I believe there is no need to change the default in Cygwin to EUC-JP. -- Kazuhiro Fujieda <fuji...@acm.org> -- 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
