libs/newlib-cygwin
libs/newlib-cygwin
4
0
Fork 0
mirror of git://sourceware.org/git/newlib-cygwin.git synced 2025-01-18 04:19:21 +08:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Wiki Activity

* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-posix): Mention UTF-8 as "C" default

Browse Source 
and the default locale "C.UTF-8".
	* setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Ditto.
This commit is contained in:
Corinna Vinschen 2009-10-28 10:09:54 +00:00
parent a861373585
commit 641ba32982
3 changed files with 16 additions and 2 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

6
winsup/doc/ChangeLog
View File

@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
2009-10-28 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-posix): Mention UTF-8 as "C" default
and the default locale "C.UTF-8".
* setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Ditto.
2009-10-26 Christopher Faylor <me+cygwin@cgf.cx>
* faq-setup.xml: Fix clean_setup.pl reference.

4
winsup/doc/new-features.sgml
View File

@ -211,7 +211,9 @@
The setting of the environment variables $LANG, $LC_ALL or $LC_CTYPE will
be used. For instance, setting $LANG to "de_DE.ISO-8859-15" before
starting a Cygwin session will use the ISO-8859-15 character set in
the entire session. UTF-8 is supported as well, as in "en_US.UTF-8".
the entire session. The default charset is "UTF-8", even in the
default locale "C". The default locale in the absence of one of the
aforementioned environment variables is "C.UTF-8".
The full list of supported character sets: "ASCII", "ISO-8859-x" with x
in 1-16, except 12, "UTF-8", Windows codepages "CPxxx", with xxx in

8
winsup/doc/setup2.sgml
View File

@ -180,6 +180,9 @@ variables to "C.charset". For instance</para>
"C.ISO-8859-1"
</screen>
<para>The default locale in the absence of the aforementioned locale
environment variables is "C.UTF-8".</para>
<para>Windows uses the UTF-16 charset exclusively to store the names
of any object used by the Operating System. This is especially important
with filenames. Cygwin uses the setting of the locale environment variables
@ -206,7 +209,10 @@ own purpose, typically by using the call</para>
setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
</screen>
<para>early in the application code.</para>
<para>early in the application code. Again, so that this doesn't get
lost: If the application calls setlocale as above, and there is none
of the important locale variables set in the environment, the locale
is set to the default locale, which is "C.UTF-8".</para>
<para>
Right now the language and territory, as well as the modifier, are not