From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygwin started speaking German today
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111017065904.GB30527@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E9B2585.1000409@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
On Oct 16 14:42, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 10/11/2011 12:54 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >Consensus does appear to be unanimous on what to do; I just need to
> >review all the postings and figure out exactly /how/ to do it.
>
> I have uploaded the new packages. There are three new patches:
>
> 1) modified localename.c significantly. No longer "ignores"
> LANG=C.UTF-8; also does not try to do any parsing of the Windows
> I18N settings. Basically, acts like linux -- if the value of the
> locale string isn't supported by the underlying setlocale()
> implementation, then it is ignored (e.g. default back to "C.UTF-8"
> or "C") -- libintl doesn't try to 'be smart' -- or to second-guess.
> Also, relies on cygwin's glibc-like setlocale(LC_*, NULL) behavior
> -- which has been supported by newlib since the cygwin 1.5 days
> (even if it always returned "C" back then).
Thanks!
> 2) Fixes to the test suite related to the above changes.
>
> 3) Adopted Bruno's upstream changes to relocatable.c, turning off
> "expensive" relocation support in libintl.
>
> Odds of #1 and #2 being adopted upstream are effectively nil, so...
I don't understand this. It's very clear that the former, unfixed
behaviour is totally wrong for Cygwin, especially in terms of the
used charset. I don't see why doing the right thing, using less special
cases for Cygwin in gettext/libintl should be unacceptable for upstream.
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-17 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-30 10:18 Voelker, Bernhard
2011-08-30 11:28 ` Charles Wilson
2011-09-08 2:31 ` Charles Wilson
2011-09-08 10:46 ` Bruno Haible
2011-09-08 10:55 ` Voelker, Bernhard
2011-09-08 11:06 ` Eric Blake
2011-09-08 12:05 ` Charles Wilson
2011-09-08 12:48 ` Andy Koppe
2011-09-08 13:13 ` Eric Blake
2011-09-08 12:51 ` Andy Koppe
2011-09-08 21:58 ` Bruno Haible
[not found] ` <201109082344.55506.bruno@clisp.org>
2011-09-09 9:18 ` Charles Wilson
2011-09-09 12:33 ` Andy Koppe
2011-09-09 15:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-09-10 11:36 ` Thorsten Kampe
2011-09-13 18:39 ` Eric Blake
2011-09-17 21:50 ` David Sastre
2011-09-17 22:50 ` Ken Brown
2011-09-18 3:19 ` David Sastre
2011-10-04 12:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-04 12:46 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-04 14:30 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-04 18:04 ` Erwin Waterlander
2011-10-04 18:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-05 16:04 ` Erwin Waterlander
2011-10-05 16:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-05 16:52 ` Erwin Waterlander
2011-10-05 17:32 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-05 18:24 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-05 18:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-05 18:44 ` Erwin Waterlander
2011-10-05 18:50 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2011-10-05 18:58 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-10-10 17:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-11 15:41 ` Erwin Waterlander
2011-10-11 16:54 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-11 17:29 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-10-16 18:42 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-17 6:59 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2011-10-17 13:17 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-17 13:52 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-17 13:58 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-05 18:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-06 1:35 ` [OT] " Andrey Repin
2011-10-05 12:08 ` Ken Brown
2011-09-09 15:13 ` Charles Wilson
2011-09-09 20:08 ` Andy Koppe
2011-09-08 13:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-09-08 13:51 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-09-08 20:57 ` Bruno Haible
2011-09-09 15:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-09-09 15:58 ` Andy Koppe
2011-09-10 11:45 ` Thorsten Kampe
2011-09-10 13:50 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-09-10 16:10 ` Thorsten Kampe
2011-09-10 17:11 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-08-31 8:39 Voelker, Bernhard
2011-08-31 14:01 ` Charles Wilson
2011-08-31 15:19 ` Charles Wilson
2011-09-01 5:30 Voelker, Bernhard
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