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Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:45:00 -0600
- Subject: Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets
- References: <20090403173212.51916.qmail@web4102.mail.ogk.yahoo.co.jp> <20090406110457.GA4134@calimero.vinschen.de>
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According to Corinna Vinschen on 4/6/2009 5:04 AM:
> Please note that eucJP does not work by default on Windows XP and
> earlier OSes! At least not on the so-called "western languages"
> installations, US, French, Italian, whatever. The reason is that the
> codepage 20932 is not installed by default. You can easily install it,
> though, in the "Regional and Language Options" control panel -> Advanced
> -> Code page conversion tables. Just click on codepage "20932 (JIS X
> 0208-1990 & 0212-1990)" and have your XP installation disk ready.
Let's document this.
2009-09-24 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* setup2.sgml (setup-locale-problems): Document how to install
non-default charsets.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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diff --git a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml
index fa63a9e..3420990 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml
+++ b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml
@@ -367,6 +367,13 @@ worked all these years before, maybe it's because you switched to
another character set. This doesn't occur with symlinks created with
Cygwin 1.7 or later. </para>
+<para>Another problem you might encounter is that older versions of
+Windows did not install all charsets by default. If you are running
+Windows XP or older, and want to use the eucJP codepage, you must open
+the "Regional and Language Options" portion of the Control Panel,
+select the "Advanced" tab, and select entry 20932 in the "Code page
+conversion tables" list.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="setup-locale-missing"><title>What does not work?</title>
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