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Re: Please support CP932. (I have problem using subversion with SJIS)


2010/1/24 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> On Jan 24 13:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jan 24 10:17, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> > Therefore I've changed my mind on whether to keep SJIS and CP932
>> > separate: I think we should stick with the <locale>.SJIS charset as it
>> > is in 1.7.1, except that nl_langinfo(CODESET) for it should return
>> > "CP932" instead of "SJIS", to make sure iconv uses the right charset,
>> > thereby addressing the OP's issue.
>>
>> You have a point there. ?And it's the most easy way to implement it,
>> which is a good argument in itself.
>
> I checked that in now. ?I also kept charset "CP932" in. ?After all, it
> doesn't hurt to support that as well.
>
> Nayuta, can you please test if the latest from CVS works for you even
> with LANG="ja_JP.SJIS"?

Thank you for implementing CP932 and changing SJIS to an alias of CP932.
I'll test it tomorrow.


2010/1/24 Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>:
> I think that's the correct thing to do, but it'll likely break other
> stuff. Seems SJIS really isn't suited for Unix command line use. All
> the more reason to make EUC-JP the default for "ja_JP" I guess.

I prefer UTF-8 (or CP932) for the default for "ja_JP",
but I don't know that this is a consensus of Japanese.
-- 
nayuta

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