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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2009-10-28 13:09:54 +0300 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2009-10-28 13:09:54 +0300 |
| commit | 641ba32982ab2129d3ad532a2289c87bf0847643 (patch) | |
| tree | ce2bf6466aa8bcceb4982883c88cf9d044986fef | |
| parent | a8613735850daa9bb90cdec939a69301f22bb0fe (diff) | |
* 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.
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/new-features.sgml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/setup2.sgml | 8 |
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 3a0e91322..e529b9ea4 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -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. diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml index dda067ac3..f38db1a75 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml @@ -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 diff --git a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml index 9c9e7a12d..99558f44f 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml @@ -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 |