From 5386cd8ecc95e8f8e69460edac473236caa5e9fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:27:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * setup2.sgml (setup-locale-problems): Document how to install non-default charsets. --- winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ winsup/doc/setup2.sgml | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index badf990fb..f6023fa48 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2009-09-24 Eric Blake + + * setup2.sgml (setup-locale-problems): Document how to install + non-default charsets. + 2009-09-21 Corinna Vinschen * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-file): Add new hardlink behaviour on diff --git a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml index fa63a9e23..55c93cf5a 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml @@ -367,6 +367,14 @@ worked all these years before, maybe it's because you switched to another character set. This doesn't occur with symlinks created with Cygwin 1.7 or later. +Another problem you might encounter is that older versions of +Windows did not install all charsets by default. If you are running +Windows XP or older, you can open the "Regional and Language Options" +portion of the Control Panel, select the "Advanced" tab, and select +entries from the "Code page conversion tables" list. The following +entries are useful to cygwin: 932/SJIS, 936/EUC-KR, 949/GBK, 950/Big5, +20932/EUC-JP. + What does not work?