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

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and the default locale "C.UTF-8".
	* setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Ditto.
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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> 2009-10-26 Christopher Faylor <me+cygwin@cgf.cx>
* faq-setup.xml: Fix clean_setup.pl reference. * faq-setup.xml: Fix clean_setup.pl reference.

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The setting of the environment variables $LANG, $LC_ALL or $LC_CTYPE will 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 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 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 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 in 1-16, except 12, "UTF-8", Windows codepages "CPxxx", with xxx in

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"C.ISO-8859-1" "C.ISO-8859-1"
</screen> </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 <para>Windows uses the UTF-16 charset exclusively to store the names
of any object used by the Operating System. This is especially important of any object used by the Operating System. This is especially important
with filenames. Cygwin uses the setting of the locale environment variables with filenames. Cygwin uses the setting of the locale environment variables
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setlocale (LC_ALL, ""); setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
</screen> </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> <para>
Right now the language and territory, as well as the modifier, are not Right now the language and territory, as well as the modifier, are not