On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Ross Smith wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> However, if we default to UTF-8 for a subset of languages anyway, it >> gets even more interesting to ask, why not for all languages? Isn't it >> better in the long run to have the same default for all Cygwin >> installations? >> >> I'm really wondering if we shouldn't simply default to UTF-8 as charset >> throughout, in the application, the console, and for the filename >> conversion. Yes, not all applications will work OOTB with chars > 0x7f, >> but it was always a bug to make any assumptions for non-ASCII chars >> in the C locale. Applications can be fixed, right? > > In support of this plan, it occurs to me that any command line > applications that don't speak UTF-8 would presumably be showing the > same behaviour on Linux (e.g. odd column widths). Since one of Cygwin's > main goals is providing a Linux-like environment on Windows, I don't > think Cygwin developers should feel obliged to go out of their way to > do _better_ than Linux in this regard. > > -- Ross Smith > >
I don't have anything to add on the technical side of things but I will note that most linux distributions have been defaulting to UTF-8 lately. I think it would be highly appropriate to default to UTF-8 in cygwin. Robert Pendell shi...@elite-systems.org "A perfect world is one of chaos." Thawte Web of Trust Notary CAcert Assurer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple