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Re: The C locale
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:48:42 -0600
- Subject: Re: The C locale
- References: <416096c60908300959i1e0084b1xc8f6e65e792b035d@mail.gmail.com> <20090831005258.GG2068@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <416096c60909012329l2f25e735yc07145b8d6698cda@mail.gmail.com>
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According to Andy Koppe on 9/2/2009 12:29 AM:
> A rather important exception is 'ls', which seems to have its own
> hardcoded limitation to 7 bits for the C locale: anything non-ASCII is
> shown as '? there'.
That's only because the current build of cygwin ls pre-dates a lot of the
locale support. I'm hoping that when I get time to build coreutils 7.5,
that ls will start printing characters marked printable in the current locale.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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