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Re: [1.7] Proposal: the filename encoding in C locale uses UTF-8 instead of SO/UTF-8
2009/5/15 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> Here's one problem. ?What if an application uses setenv("LANG", ...)?
Oh. Hmmm, I think that anything should not occur.
> Do you want Cygwin to intercept all calls to setenv() to check for
> setting $LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG?
No. I think that only setlocale() has to do the check.
The reason:
- setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C") is called from Cygwin startup.
- The following code become valid.
setenv("LANG", "...");
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
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IWAMURO Motnori <http://vmi.jp/>
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