[PATCH 3/3] fhandler_pty_slave::setup_locale: respect charset == "UTF-8"

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sep  1 18:19, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> When `LANG=en_US.UTF-8`, the detected `LCID` is 0x0409, which is
> correct, but after that (at least if Pseudo Console support is enabled),
> we try to find the default code page for that `LCID`, which is ASCII
> (437). Subsequently, we set the Console output code page to that value,
> completely ignoring that we wanted to use UTF-8.
> 
> Let's not ignore the specifically asked-for UTF-8 character set.
> 
> While at it, let's also set the Console output code page even if Pseudo
> Console support is disabled; contrary to the behavior of v3.0.7, the
> Console output code page is not ignored in that case.
> 
> The most common symptom would be that console applications which do not
> specifically call `SetConsoleOutputCP()` but output UTF-8-encoded text
> seem to be broken with v3.1.x when they worked plenty fine with v3.0.x.
> 
> This fixes https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/1974,
> https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/2012,
> https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/8369,
> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2734,
> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2793,
> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2792, and possibly quite a
> few others.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>  winsup/cygwin/fhandler_tty.cc | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

Ok guys, I'm not opposed to this change in terms of its result,
but I'm starting to wonder why all this locale code in fhandler_tty
is necessary at all.

I see that get_langinfo() calls __loadlocale and performs a lot of stuff
on the charsets which looks like duplicates of the initial_setlocale()
call performed at DLL startup.

If there's anything missing in the initial_setlocale() call which would
be required by the pseudo tty code?  What exactly is it?  The codepage?
And why can't we just add the info to cygheap->locale at initial_setlocale()
time so it's available at exec time without going through all this hassle
every time?

Apart from that, all this locale/charset/lcid stuff should be concentrated
in nlsfunc.cc ideally.


Thanks,
Corinna