Re: "C" UTF-8 trouble

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Oct  5 17:40, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Vim and emacs both appear to have a hardcoded assumption that the
> default "C" locale is 8-bit only. Since the "C" locale now defaults to
> UTF-8, this means that non-ASCII characters don't work out-of-the-box
> after all. :(
> 
> Strictly speaking, vim and emacs are wrong to do this, because they
> should be leaving the charset up to setlocale and the multibyte
> conversion functions. But if these two treat "C" specially, we
> probably have to assume that others do the same and consider this a
> de-facto standard.
> 
> They're both fine, however, if the locale is set to "C.UTF-8" or any
> other explicit UTF-8 locale. Therefore, here's one way to address this
> issue that avoids patching such apps:
> 
> When the Windows environment is translated at DLL startup, and if LANG
> is not already set, set it to "C.UTF-8". This has the same semantics
> as plain "C", and LC_ALL as well as the specfic LC_* variables would
> still override it if set. Yet apps such as emacs and vi wouldn't make
> any undue assumptions.

Before changing Cygwin, doesn't `set encoding=utf-8' in vim help?


Corinna

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