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Re: UTF-8 versus utf8
On Apr 2 16:29, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/02/2010 04:27 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote:
> > Why does <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html> talk all
> > about a charset of UTF-8, then "For a list of locales supported by
> > your Windows machine, use the new locale -a command", which shows
> > "utf8" (which matches my XP machine)?
>
> UTF-8 is the canonical name of the charset, but utf8 is an acceptable
> synonym in most contexts, and is much easier to type. So, when it comes
> to specifying your charset, the suffix ".utf8" is used to request the
> UTF-8 charset.
Actually, every codeset name can be written in uppercase, mixed case,
lowercase, as you like. Apart from the canonical names, you can also
just drop any dash in the name:
ISO-8859-1, isO-8859-1, iSo-88591, ISo8859-1, iso88591
denote all the same codeset.
Corinna
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