From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14266 invoked by alias); 8 Sep 2011 21:58:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 14257 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Sep 2011 21:58:57 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de (HELO mo-p00-ob.rzone.de) (81.169.146.160) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:58:41 +0000 X-RZG-AUTH: :Ln4Re0+Ic/6oZXR1YgKryK8brksyK8dozXDwHXjf9hj/zDNRb/Q45hFP X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from linuix.haible.de (dslb-088-068-062-040.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.68.62.40]) by smtp.strato.de (jimi mo30) (RZmta 26.6) with ESMTPA id n00e81n88Jso9h ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 23:58:30 +0200 (MEST) From: Bruno Haible To: Andy Koppe Subject: Re: cygwin started speaking German today Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:58:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop; KDE/4.6.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org References: <7856072A9D04C24B82DFE2B1112FE38A0C27492B56@MCHP058A.global-ad.net> <4E68AF35.9030002@cwilson.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201109082358.58535.bruno@clisp.org> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-09/txt/msg00085.txt.bz2 Andy Koppe wrote: > Cygwin isn't Windows; it's a POSIX environment on top of Windows. > Taking the Regional Settings control panel into account might well > make sense, but it ought to be left to the Cygwin developers to decide > on this and implement it centrally. And it is the duty of the gettext package to provide an optimal internationalization experience to end users for packages that use libintl. > Cygwin developers decided that the system > default locale in case neither the relevant LC_* nor LANG are set > should also be "C.UTF-8". It's better for the end user if the POSIX default locale depends on the "Regional settings" panel. I regret that I have not been present at that discussion and that I had not understood the relation between setlocale (LC_ALL, "") and the "Regional settings" panel at that time. Bruno -- In memoriam Elisabeth von Thadden -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple