From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygwin started speaking German today
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111017135800.GD908@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111017135152.GB908@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Oct 17 15:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 17 09:16, Charles Wilson wrote:
> The problem is that Bruno tries to impose Windows over Cygwin. That's
> not what Cygwin is about. Why can't he accept that?
>
> > [*] Bruno's "option a"
> > > a) The system can set environment variables that reflect the regional
> > > settings. For example, if the user has chosen German, Cygwin's
> > > login process could set LANG to de_DE.UTF-8.
> > >
> > > This approach is used in Linux desktops like KDE.
> >
> > [**] Bruno's "option b"
> > > b) The system's setlocale() function can, when the second argument is
> > > the empty string and the respective environment variables don't
> > > specify anything, fetch the value from the "Regional settings"
> > > panel.
> > >
> > > Cygwin could do that.
>
> That's what /etc/profile.d/lang.sh and lang.csh is about.
Oh, and, btw., even *if* that would be treated as a bug in Cygwin,
it's not a library's task to second guess over the head of the
underlying POSIX system, as cgf has pointed out already a while ago.
Consider libintl would do the same on Linux: The user has set $LANG
to "C.UTF-8" and libintl would look into /etc/sysconfig/i18n and
override the user's decision. Well, Linux applications usually use
glibc localization functions, so that won't happen, but I don't
think Bruno would have many friends in the Linux community...
Corinna
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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
2011-10-17 13:17 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-17 13:52 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-17 13:58 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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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