Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

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

On Sep 25 10:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep 24 21:45, Eric Blake wrote:
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> > According to Corinna Vinschen on 4/6/2009 5:04 AM:
> > > Please note that eucJP does not work by default on Windows XP and
> > > earlier OSes!  At least not on the so-called "western languages"
> > > installations, US, French, Italian, whatever.  The reason is that the
> > > codepage 20932 is not installed by default.  You can easily install it,
> > > though, in the "Regional and Language Options" control panel -> Advanced
> > > -> Code page conversion tables.  Just click on codepage "20932 (JIS X
> > > 0208-1990 & 0212-1990)" and have your XP installation disk ready.
> > 
> > Let's document this.
> > 
> > 2009-09-24  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
> > 
> > 	* setup2.sgml (setup-locale-problems): Document how to install
> > 	non-default charsets.
> 
> Shoot.

Btw., it's not only 20932/EUC-JP.  The full list is 932/SJIS,
936/EUC-KR, 949/GBK, 950/Big5, 20932/EUC-JP.  Probably it makes sense
to note all of them.


Corinna

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