Why cygwin forced convert all input and output to OEM or ANSI ?

[Kazuhiro Fujieda]

>>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 01:12:33 +0600
>>> Alexander Gotlib <Alexander.Gotlib@cca.usart.ru> said:

> Now I see only two ways to use nonenglish codepage:
> CYGWIN=codepage:oem and CYGWIN=codepage:ansi. How can I use
> something differing of OEM and ANSI in whith cygwin apps ?

The current Cygwin DLL doesn't support codepages other than
OEM or ANSI in the current system locale, because Win32 APIs
sensitive to the codepage can't handle them.
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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
  | HOKURIKU  Center for Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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