-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 4/6/2009 5:04 AM: > Please note that eucJP does not work by default on Windows XP and > earlier OSes! At least not on the so-called "western languages" > installations, US, French, Italian, whatever. The reason is that the > codepage 20932 is not installed by default. You can easily install it, > though, in the "Regional and Language Options" control panel -> Advanced > -> Code page conversion tables. Just click on codepage "20932 (JIS X > 0208-1990 & 0212-1990)" and have your XP installation disk ready.
Let's document this. 2009-09-24 Eric Blake <e...@byu.net> * setup2.sgml (setup-locale-problems): Document how to install non-default charsets. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkq8PLwACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCYUACaA4WGn+8uQKJLHNDldRREjdV3 J6IAn0IKdS6rHCjagUGZq+B5y0F41mgm =F0GE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
diff --git a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml index fa63a9e..3420990 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml @@ -367,6 +367,13 @@ worked all these years before, maybe it's because you switched to another character set. This doesn't occur with symlinks created with Cygwin 1.7 or later. </para> +<para>Another problem you might encounter is that older versions of +Windows did not install all charsets by default. If you are running +Windows XP or older, and want to use the eucJP codepage, you must open +the "Regional and Language Options" portion of the Control Panel, +select the "Advanced" tab, and select entry 20932 in the "Code page +conversion tables" list.</para> + </sect2> <sect2 id="setup-locale-missing"><title>What does not work?</title> -- 1.6.5.rc1