On Sep 29 05:27, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/9/28 Corinna Vinschen > > The downside is that a user, who needs to work under the default ANSI > > codepage for some reason, has to know the name of the default ANSI > > codepage. Right now any user who needs the default ANSI codepage can > > simply set LANG to some language code and go ahead, without having to > > know the number. With your solution, that wouldn't be possible anymore > > and the user would have to figure out the default ANSI codepage on the > > system before being able to use it. > > How about an explicit "ANSI" charset that maps to GetACP()? And "OEM" > for GetOEMCP()? Those would make easy replacements for the > CYGWIN=codepage:[ansi|oem] option.
Not for 1.7.1. Maybe later, if there's any actual demand. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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