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Re: OemToAnsi patch from 2000-07-04
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:27:05PM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Wednesday, 15 November, 2000 Kazuhiro Fujieda fujieda@jaist.ac.jp wrote:
>
>>> I have no problem with a Cygwin option. Should it be more general, though?
>>> Something like:
>>>
>>> set CYGWIN=codepage:oem
>
>KF> It doesn't need such generosity. Because we can't choose other
>KF> codepages than the system default ANSI or OEM codepage as the
>KF> internal codepage of the Cygwin DLL. I think the following simple
>KF> switch is sufficient for this purpose.
>
>KF> set CYGWIN=oemcp
>
>if there is CYGWIN=codepage:ansi option than you can do something like
>
>set CYGWIN=%CYGWIN% codepage:ansi
>
>and no matter what codepage: was set in your original %CYGWIN% we will
>turn back to default.
Sounds right to me. I like the 'codepage:' (or whatever) approach because
it lets us plan for the future.
I don't suppose there are already any UNIX methods for accomplishing this
already, are there?
cgf