On Oct 24 06:47, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/10/24 Charles Wilson: > > [cross-posted to cygwin list] > > > > Background for cygwin list: Dave discovered a problem running some of > > the gcc tests. The tests were run in the "C" locale, but in so doing > > they assumed an ascii encoding (specifically, that "'" would match ' in > > test patterns -- but the program actually emitted those fancy curled > > quotes which did not match '). > > Do you mean they explicitly set the "C" locale? > > Hmm. Now that we've got the "C.UTF-8" default, "C" could actually go > back to mean ASCII. With no locale variables set, the console and > filesystem would use UTF-8 anyway, as would applications that call > setlocale(,""). Only applications that don't call setlocale() would be > using the "C" locale and hence ASCII, as but that'd be fine as either > they don't care about it or they actually expect to be using ASCII.
Oh boy. That's not just an easy one liner patch. Can I get a STC which shows the aforementioned problem? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
