Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> IIRC, that discussion occurred before the 'locale' application (was >> written|got smarter). Sure, I think C.UTF-8 should be the "default >> default" but the arguments in favor of respecting the users' own Windows >> i18n settings make sense.
> Does it? Even if I'm running a german OS, I absolutely hate to see > german diagnostic output from gcc, and I absolutely hate certain > programs using non-ASCII chars in output. (In)famous examples are > Unicode quoting chars rather than ' or ", or using the Unicode hyphen > character rather than -. But that's just me. Not just you. We have a team of a developer from greece, a co-developer and tester from Sweden, former project leader and consultant from USA and a number of assistants from different other countries. Indeed, we communicate project details and error reports in English... Any other language would be inappropriate... -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 06.10.2011, <05:21> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
