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Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:06:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets
- References: <20090403173212.51916.qmail@web4102.mail.ogk.yahoo.co.jp> <20090406110457.GA4134@calimero.vinschen.de> <4ABC3CBC.7000502@byu.net> <20090925083658.GD26348@calimero.vinschen.de>
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On Sep 25 10:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep 24 21:45, Eric Blake wrote:
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> > According to Corinna Vinschen on 4/6/2009 5:04 AM:
> > > Please note that eucJP does not work by default on Windows XP and
> > > earlier OSes! At least not on the so-called "western languages"
> > > installations, US, French, Italian, whatever. The reason is that the
> > > codepage 20932 is not installed by default. You can easily install it,
> > > though, in the "Regional and Language Options" control panel -> Advanced
> > > -> Code page conversion tables. Just click on codepage "20932 (JIS X
> > > 0208-1990 & 0212-1990)" and have your XP installation disk ready.
> >
> > Let's document this.
> >
> > 2009-09-24 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
> >
> > * setup2.sgml (setup-locale-problems): Document how to install
> > non-default charsets.
>
> Shoot.
Btw., it's not only 20932/EUC-JP. The full list is 932/SJIS,
936/EUC-KR, 949/GBK, 950/Big5, 20932/EUC-JP. Probably it makes sense
to note all of them.
Corinna
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