CYGWIN=codepage? Or LC_CTYPE=foo?

[Kazuhiro Fujieda]

>>> On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:31:17 -0700 (PDT)
>>> Gregg Tavares said:

> If LC_CTYPE is set to something else than unless the user manually 
> sets it back to UTF-8, programs that attempt to deal with filenames 
> that don't fit the current codepage will fail. That seems bad to me. 
>
> Also, if LC_CTYPE is not set to codepage:utf-8 then any unix programs 
> communicating filenames machine to machine will almost always fail 
> for non ASCII filenames.

As long as internal character conversion in Cygwin DLL and
character processing in the C library functions use the same
codepage, Unix programs should be able to handle filenames
properly. LC_CTYPE will determines it. It isn't necessary the
default is UTF-8.
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