On Jul 20 06:21, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/20/2009 6:08 AM: > > I'm running the testcase on XP SP3. I have an idea why it fails for > > you. The eucJP codepage 20932 is not installed by default on US and > > other western language systems by default up to Windows 2003. What you > > have to do is, open the "Regional and Language Options" control panel, > > go to the "Advanced" tab, scroll the "Code page conversion tables" list > > down to the 20932 entry, select it and install it. > > > > This is not necessary anymore startying with Vista, which comes with > > almost all important conversion tables preinstalled. > > Hmm. That means we should probably teach setlocale to fail when trying to > select an eucJP codeset if we detect that the eucJP tables are not (yet) > installed.
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC > if I build a cygwin package on a system without the code page, the gnulib > test skips, but knows (or can be taught) to assume that cygwin's mbrtowc > is not broken Why is it a problem to do that in the current incarnation? It's a known fact that Cygwin 1.7 will handle these charsets (eucJP, eucKR, SJIS, GBK, Big5). 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
