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diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml index 8c09db05d..d49505585 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml @@ -10,15 +10,15 @@ <listitem><para> Cygwin now handles locales using the underlying Windows locale - support. The locale must exists in Windows to be recognized. + support. The locale must exist in Windows to be recognized. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> - New tool "getlocale" to fetch valid locale values from Windows. + New tool "getlocale" to fetch valid locale identifiers from Windows. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> - Default charset for locales without explicit charset is now choosen + Default charset for locales without explicit charset is now chosen from a list of Linux-compatible charsets. </para> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ <listitem><para> Default charset in the "C" or "POSIX" locale has been changed back - from UTF-8 to ASCII, to circumvent problems with applications + from UTF-8 to ASCII, to avoid problems with applications expecting a singlebyte charset in the "C"/"POSIX" locale. Still use UTF-8 internally for filename conversion in this case. </para></listitem> @@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ New strfmon(3) call. </para></listitem> + <listitem><para> + The console's backspace keycode can be changed using 'stty erase'. + </para></listitem> + </itemizedlist> </listitem> @@ -110,7 +114,7 @@ If a filename cannot be represented in the current character set, the character will be converted to a sequence Ctrl-X + UTF-8 representation of the character. This allows to access all files, even those not having a valid representation of their filename in the current character -set (codepage). To always have a valid string, use the UTF-8 charset by +set. To always have a valid string, use the UTF-8 charset by setting the environment variable $LANG, $LC_ALL, or $LC_CTYPE to a valid POSIX value, for instance in Cygwin.bat like this: </para> @@ -159,8 +163,8 @@ Creating files with special DOS device filename components ("aux", <listitem><para> File names are case sensitive if the OS and the underlying file system supports it. Works on NTFS and NFS. Does not work on FAT and Samba -shares. Requires to change a registry key (see the user's guide). Can -be switched off on a per-mount base. +shares. Requires to change a registry key (see the User's Guide). Can +be switched off on a per-mount basis. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> @@ -302,7 +306,7 @@ New send/recv option MSG_DONTWAIT. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> -IPv6 support. New API getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, freeaddrinfo, +IPv6 support. New APIs getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, freeaddrinfo, gai_strerror, in6addr_any, in6addr_loopback. On IPv6-less systems, replacement functions are available for IPv4. On systems with IPv6 enabled, the underlying WinSock functions are used. While I tried hard @@ -410,8 +414,7 @@ A lot of character sets are supported now via a call to setlocale(). 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. The default charset is "UTF-8", even in the default -locale "C". The default locale in the absence of one of the +entire session. The default locale in the absence of one of the aforementioned environment variables is "C.UTF-8". </para> @@ -420,9 +423,7 @@ 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 (437, 720, 737, 775, 850, 852, 855, 857, 858, 862, 866, 874, 1125, 1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1256, 1257, 1258), "KOI8-R", "KOI8-U", -"SJIS", "GBK", "eucJP", "eucKR", and "Big5". The leading language and -territory part (en_US, for instance) is not used by Cygwin yet, but is -required for POSIX compatibility. +"SJIS", "GBK", "eucJP", "eucKR", and "Big5". </para> </listitem> |