Base-Files (was Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile?)

[Andy Koppe]

2009/12/2 Angelo Graziosi:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>> And I'd like to ask you to add two one-liner files to your package:
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-12/msg00026.html
>
> In my system (XPSP3), some Windows application defined LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 at
> Windows level (all users), and it works just fine with all Cygwin
> applications I use. So what would it be, for me, the benefit of your
> proposal (LANG=C.UTF-8)?
>
> Indeed setting LANG=C.UTF-8, Emacs loads english dictionary instead of
> italian, by default. Why non-english users should have that in Cygwin if
> their system language is defined differently?

See the continuation of the thread Corinna linked to. LANG should only
be set to C.UTF-8 if it isn't set already.

Andy

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