Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

[Linda Walsh <cygwin at tlinx dot org>]

Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/28/2009 6:07 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> > 2009/10/28 Ken Brown:
> > > Maybe my terminology is wrong.  But if you start mintty with no 
> > > .minttyrc
> > > and with LANG unset, mintty will set LANG=C.UTF-8.
> >
> > Yep. That's primarily for emacs' benefit, which parses the locale env
> > variables itself instead of using setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""), thereby
> > missing out on Cygwin's default locale.
>
> Andy,
>
> I've sent a report about this to the emacs-devel list 
> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-11/threads.html#01216). 
>  But I don't have a good understanding of locale issues.  Could you take 
> a look and see if what I said is accurate or if more should be said?

C.UTF_8 doesn't exist.

mintty is broken.

Might want to try 'Console' nstead of using mintty.  Not perfect either, 
but fewer compatibility problems that I've noticed.

Examples of valid LANG values: 

  C, ca_FR, en_US, fr_FR, it_IT, nl_NL, wa_BE@euro 


You can't have "C" and "UTF-8", because C means no encoding (default).
UTF-8 IS an encoding, so they are mutually exclusive.  I don't
know under what circumstances "C" might imply UTF-8.  If the definition
of "C" changes?  It might be easier than changing "c" (as used in physics).

My understanding of locale issues is also limited and subject to change or
re-education...

:-)

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