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* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.2): Add support for locales from 

/usr/share/locale/locale.alias.
	* setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Ditto.
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2010-02-07 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.2): Add support for locales from
/usr/share/locale/locale.alias.
* setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Ditto.
2010-02-06 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Align description of working modifiers

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<listitem><para>
Cygwin now handles locales using the underlying Windows locale
support. The locale must exist in Windows to be recognized.
Locale aliases from the file /usr/share/locale/locale.alias are also
allowed, as long as their replacement is supported by the underlying Windows.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>

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"syr_SY" language = Syriac, territory = Syria, default charset
</screen>
<para>
If the locale specifier does not follow the above form, Cygwin checks
if the locale is one of the locale aliases defined in the file
<filename>/usr/share/locale/locale.alias</filename>. If so, and if
the replacement localename is supported by the underlying Windows,
the locale is accepted, too. So, given the default content of the
<filename>/usr/share/locale/locale.alias</filename> file, the below
examples would be valid locale specifiers as well.
</para>
<screen>
"catalan" defined as "ca_ES.ISO-8859-1" in locale.alias
"japanese" defined as "ja_JP.eucJP" in locale.alias
"turkish" defined as "tr_TR.ISO-8859-9" in locale.alias
</screen>
<para>The file <filename>/usr/share/locale/locale.alias</filename> is
provided by the gettext package under Cygwin.</para>
<para>
At application startup, the application's locale is set to the default
"C" or "POSIX" locale. Under Cygwin 1.7.2 and later, this locale defaults