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

[egor duda]

Hi!

Tuesday, 25 September, 2001 Kazuhiro Fujieda fujieda@jaist.ac.jp wrote:

>> 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 ?

KF> The current Cygwin DLL doesn't support codepages other than
KF> OEM or ANSI in the current system locale, because Win32 APIs
KF> sensitive to the codepage can't handle them.

it's possible, i believe, to add something like CYGWIN=codepage:asis
all codepage-specific functions do allow supplying any valid codepage
to them with one exception: /dev/clipboard handling code.
Unfortunately, windows clipboard api really doesn't allow codepages other
than oem and ansi.

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19


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