2009/9/27 IWAMURO Motonori <deenhe...@gmail.com>: >> LANG="ja" -> EUCJP >> LANG="ja_JP" -> EUCJP > > Hmmm, It is a difficult problem. > > I think selecting UTF-8 is good because eucJP is legacy. > > But, for interoperability with other UNIX-like system(*), I don't > think selecting UTF-8 is good. > > * Solaris: ja, ja_JP -> eucJP > * Linux (Debian): ja -> Unknown, ja_JP -> eucJP > > I need to think more...
My conclusion is as follows as a result of hearing other Japanese people's opinion: LANG=ja -> UTF-8 LANG=ja_JP -> UTF-8 Because, we specify "eucJP" explicitly when we need it. -- IWAMURO Motnori <http://vmi.jp/> -- 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