Status of nl_langinfo and CODESET

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Wed Oct 27 21:57:00 GMT 2004


On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:10:10PM +0100, Colin JN Breame wrote:
>I've been investigating the dreaded "Can't recode string" error in 
>subversion.  This error occurs when a string contains characters that 
>cannot be converted into the equivalent characters in the users locale.
>
>It seems that nl_langinfo always returns US-ASCII (at least on my 
>system), even if LC_CTYPE is set or the locale is something else entirely.
>
>Looking at the archive indicates that cygwin doesn't have "proper" 
>locale support.  Does anyone know what would be required to give cygwin 
>"proper" locale support?

Someone would have to investigate what was missing and program it in.
To Cygwin.

cgf

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