On Jul 20 14:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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).
I applied a patch which lets setlocale fail if the codepage necessary for the conversion isn't installed. HTH, 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
