default charset for implicit locale specification

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 20 09:45, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
> >I think that the second option is the better one since that's
> >what the user expects when setting the locale to some language.
> >But I'd like to hear arguments.
> I agree absolutely with the second option, it's basically what I had
> already suggested:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-09/msg00824.html
> It's what all other systems do, too.
> I wasn't aware, though, that Windows provides the mapping so you
> don't have to maintain your own table,
> sounds perfect (assuming that the Windows mapping doesn't include
> some weird non-standard things... who knows).

No, the mappings are sound, I checked all 355 of them on Windows 7.
What do you say of the transition table outlined in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2010-01/msg00045.html?


Corinna

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