oem/ansi codepage support
Christopher Faylor
cgf@redhat.com
Fri Dec 1 21:02:00 GMT 2000
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:47:05PM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
>Hi!
>
> this patch allows to specify CYGWIN=codepage:oem or
>CYGWIN=codepage:ansi and force cygwin to use appropriate codepage.
>Default codepage is ansi, as it is currently.
>There's one caveat in this patch: cygwin performs switching to
>specified codepage after initializing the environment, so all
>initializations performed before environ_init() will use ansi
>codepage. as far as i can see, there's no codepage-dependant code
>in those initializations now, but they may appear in the future.
The patch looks good but isn't there an LC_something environment
variable that is equivalent to this on Linux.
If so, I would like to use that (even though I suggested using the Cygwin
env variable).
cgf
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