charset changes

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Thu Feb 11 13:15:00 GMT 2010


On 07.02.2010 14:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb  5 22:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>    
>> On Feb  5 17:28, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>      
>>> And finally, some systems (e.g. Fedora) maintain a number of
>>> full-word locales (locale aliases?) that are not known on cygwin
>>> either (maybe not harmful):
>>>        
>> That's something for the far future, I guess.
>>      
> Not really.  I just implemented it.  It reads from
> /usr/share/locale/locale.alias if the locale isn't recognized.  The file
> /usr/share/locale/locale.alias is provided by the gettext package.
>    
Which means, however, that it does not work for cygwin stand-alone 
applications because the stand-alone cygwin1.dll will not find that file.
Just to be noted, don't worry (unlees you feel like it).
Thomas



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