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Re: mbrtowc bug
On Jul 20 21:13, Eric Blake wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
> > > > > I'm running the testcase on XP SP3. I have an idea why it fails for
> > > > > you. The eucJP codepage 20932 is not installed by default on US and
> > > > > other western language systems by default up to Windows 2003. What you
> > > > > have to do is, open the "Regional and Language Options" control panel,
> > > > > go to the "Advanced" tab, scroll the "Code page conversion tables" list
> > > > > down to the 20932 entry, select it and install it.
>
> Cool. That worked to make the gnulib tests pass when installed. We ought to
> make sure this trick is documented on the page of supported charsets
> (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html#setup-locale-problems)
Care to write this up? Btw., I checked on Windows 2003, and it installs
all codepages by default. So this is only a problem on XP and older.
Corinna
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