Cygwin zh_CN.GB18030 locale?

[Mark Liam Brown]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 12:39 PM Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 21 12:25, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Nov 21 05:57, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > locale -a | grep 18030
> >
> > You're confusing locale with codeset (or charset).
> >
> >   $ locale -a | grep zh_CN
> >   zh_CN
> >   zh_CN.utf8
> >   zh_CN.utf8@cjknarrow
> >   zh_CN@cjknarrow
> >
> >   $ locale -m | grep 18030
> >   GB18030
> >
> > Note that for compat reasons, the default codeset of zh_CN is gb2312,
> > so you have to specify a different codeset explicitely.
> >
> >   export LC_MESSAGES=zh_CN.GB18030
>
> Please check additionally:
>
>   $ locale -av
>   $ cat /proc/locales
>   $ cat /proc/codesets
>
> Those might be pretty helpful.
>

locale -a does not list GB18030, and autoconf/cmake and others will
then think the GB18030 locale is not installed.

locale -a should list ALL supported locales, with FULL
language[_territory][.codeset][@modifier] string, and not just the
legacy language[_territory] string, which is pretty useless for
autoconf/cmake.

Mark
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