On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:45:37AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/09/2011 08:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Sep 9 13:33, Andy Koppe wrote: > >>The 'C.UTF-8' default locale is not a bug, it was a deliberate design > >>decision. > > > >Exactly. And it has been discussed a lot on the cygwin-apps mailing > >list. > > > >And above all, there *is* an official way for the user to align the > >Cygwin locale with the Windows locale, see the -s and -u options > >of the locale(1) command: > > > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#locale > > On 09/09/2011 09:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> OK, then the following four facilities are needed in Cygwin. > >> > >> 1) We need the name of the locale which is in effect when the user has > >> not specified environment variables. > > > > In Fedora, for instance, the fallback is what is set as system default > > in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. > > > > In Cygwin the fallback is the system default set in > /etc/profile.d/lang.sh > > or /etc/profile.d/lang.csh. > > > > Why should libintl use anything else on Cygwin, but not on Linux? > > > > Given this, I think the bug is in cygwin for having base files > /etc/profile.d/lang.{sh,csh} which hardcode LANG to C.UTF-8 instead > of using locale -s -u to default LANG to the preferred Windows > settings. Libintl should NOT be second-guessing an explicit setting > of LANG, but cygwin should NOT be explicitly setting LANG to C.UTF-8 > in its default startup scripts without any regards to the Windows > settings. Whether setlocale(LC_ALL,"") returns C.UTF-8 or a > Windows-appropriate string _when LANG is undefined_ is still worth > solving, but right now, an out-of-the-box cygwin installation > _always has LANG defined_ by the default startup scripts. So our > first focus should be to get that setting of LANG fixed to honor > Windows, and to teach libintl that when LANG is set we really meant > it.
WRT the base-files package, would it be acceptable/does it make sense to set:
test -z "${LC_ALL:-${LC_CTYPE:-$LANG}}" && export LANG=${locale -sU}
in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh and
if ( $?LC_ALL == 0 && $?LC_CTYPE == 0 && $?LANG == 0 ) setenv LANG = `locale
-sU`
in /etc/profile.d/lang.csh, both as proposed, _and_ a (possibly) commented-out
test -z "${LC_ALL:-${LC_CTYPE:-$LANG}}" && export LANG=${locale -uU}
in the skeletal .bash_profile and .profile (i.e. both system-wide and
user defined settings)?
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