Bruno Haible wrote: > > Bernhard Voelker wrote: > > > Starting with today's update, cygwin started speaking German: > > > > > > $ mkdir -v x0 > > > mkdir: Verzeichnis „x0“ angelegt > > > $ LANG=C mkdir -v x2 > > > mkdir: created directory `x2' > > > $ LANG=C.UTF-8 mkdir -v x1 > > > mkdir: Verzeichnis „x1“ angelegt > > > > > > Default is LANG=C.UTF-8 here. > > > > > > Ok, the PC is in Germany, but none of my environment > > > variables have a 'de' inside. > > This is as it should be. See the NEWS entry from the gettext package: > > * Runtime behaviour: > - On MacOS X and Windows systems, <libintl.h> now extends setlocale() and > newlocale() so that their determination of the default locale considers > the choice the user has made in the system control panels. > > 'mkdir' is a GNU coreutils programs, which uses <libintl.h>, so it gets > the benefit of libintl enhancements. > > After Cygwin 1.7 added working locales and defined LANG=C.UTF-8 for all users, > libintl could be extended to respect the choices the user has made in the > system control panels. > > ...
I had read the NEWS but wasn't aware that the behaviour in Cygwin would change for my system with this update. Thanks for this comprehensive explanation! Have a nice day, Berny
