From 3b994b1249be43cdeeb252982a7cad518e9740ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corinna Vinschen Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:34:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.2): Add LC_MESSAGES support. * setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Change "@euro" modifier description. (setup-locale-missing): Remove. --- winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ winsup/doc/new-features.sgml | 3 ++- winsup/doc/setup2.sgml | 26 ++++---------------------- 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index eda9424ca..710a3d88b 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2010-02-10 Corinna Vinschen + + * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.2): Add LC_MESSAGES support. + * setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Change "@euro" modifier description. + (setup-locale-missing): Remove. + 2010-02-07 Yaakov Selkowitz * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-misc): Fix typo. diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml index 9330b5a6f..61bc37b88 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml @@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME localization is - enabled via Windows locale support. + enabled via Windows locale support. LC_MESSAGES is enabled via a big + table with localized strings. diff --git a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml index 07a69c117..c0e8caf14 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml @@ -291,10 +291,10 @@ ignored for now. -For languages which default to the ISO-8859-1 character -set, the modifier "@euro" can be added to enforce usage of the ISO-8859-15 -character set, which includes a character for the "Euro" currency sign. -Beware, that also works for non-european locales. + +For locales which use the Euro (EUR) as currency, the modifier "@euro" +can be added to enforce usage of the ISO-8859-15 character set, which +includes a character for the "Euro" currency sign. @@ -497,24 +497,6 @@ entries are useful to cygwin: 932/SJIS, 936/GBK, 949/EUC-KR, 950/Big5, -What does not work? - - -The environment variable and locale setting LC_MESSAGES -is ignored right now. There's no known WIndows function to fetch the -regular expressions to recognize user input with the meaning of "yes" -or "no" from some Windows function. Therefore, -nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) and -nl_langinfo(NOEXPR) always return a string -suitable only for the English language. - -If somebody knows a simple solution to this problem, feel free -to notify us on the -Cygwin mailing list. - - - - List of supported character sets Last but not least, here's the list of currently supported character