OemToAnsi patch from 2000-07-04

[Kazuhiro Fujieda]

>>> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:41:47 -0500
>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:

> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-10/msg00848.html
> 
> Has anyone else actually tried this patch?  I have grown leery of
> applying patches that "work fine" in the console code.

I tried it. His code for emulating various terminal capabilities
didn't work fine to me. Once CYGWIN=codepage:oem is supported,
there isn't much need of the code switching ANSI/OEM codepages.

> If this is desirable, I'll look into getting an assignment and
> applying the patch.

So it isn't always desirable.
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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology