Andy Koppe wrote: > Cygwin isn't Windows; it's a POSIX environment on top of Windows. > Taking the Regional Settings control panel into account might well > make sense, but it ought to be left to the Cygwin developers to decide > on this and implement it centrally.
And it is the duty of the gettext package to provide an optimal internationalization experience to end users for packages that use libintl. > Cygwin developers decided that the system > default locale in case neither the relevant LC_* nor LANG are set > should also be "C.UTF-8". It's better for the end user if the POSIX default locale depends on the "Regional settings" panel. I regret that I have not been present at that discussion and that I had not understood the relation between setlocale (LC_ALL, "") and the "Regional settings" panel at that time. Bruno -- In memoriam Elisabeth von Thadden <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_von_Thadden> -- 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
