UTF-8 versus utf8

[Tim McDaniel]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/02/2010 04:27 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote:
>> Why does <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html> talk
>> all about a charset of UTF-8, then "For a list of locales supported
>> by your Windows machine, use the new locale -a command", which
>> shows "utf8" (which matches my XP machine)?
>
> UTF-8 is the canonical name of the charset, but utf8 is an
> acceptable synonym in most contexts, and is much easier to type.
> So, when it comes to specifying your charset, the suffix ".utf8" is
> used to request the UTF-8 charset.

So why doesn't "locale -a" report the canonical name?

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com

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