Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

[Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>]

2009/10/28 Ken Brown:
> Maybe my terminology is wrong. ÂBut if you start mintty with no .minttyrc
> and with LANG unset, mintty will set LANG=C.UTF-8.

Yep. That's primarily for emacs' benefit, which parses the locale env
variables itself instead of using setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""), thereby
missing out on Cygwin's default locale.

(http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html says
that if LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG are all either unset or empty, the
implementation-dependent default locale shall be used. For Cygwin 1.7,
the default locale uses UTF-8 and not ASCII as assumed by emacs. It
works correctly in vim.)

Andy

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