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Re: Default locale for Russian/Russia should be ru_RU.CP1251
- From: Andrey ``Bass'' Shcheglov <andrewbass at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 13:50:58 +0300
- Subject: Re: Default locale for Russian/Russia should be ru_RU.CP1251
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Thank you for clarification Corinna.
Regards,
Andrey.
On 24.12.2015 22:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> You missed to read on:
>
> Cygwin uses a character set which is the typical Unix-equivalent
> to the Windows ANSI codepage. For instance: [...]
>
> Rephrasing the above, Cygwin only uses the ANSI codepage to fetch
> the default Linux codepage from there. Maybe the documentation is
> a bit fuzzy, but it didn't say the charset is set *to* the Windows
> ANSI charset, it just *uses* the information to compute and set the
> codeset to the equivalent Linux codeset.
>
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