From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21643 invoked by alias); 10 Sep 2011 11:36:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 21493 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Sep 2011 11:36:21 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:36:04 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R2Lqt-0003ZZ-CK for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:36:03 +0200 Received: from ip-213-220-207-166.net.upcbroadband.cz ([213.220.207.166]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:36:03 +0200 Received: from thorsten by ip-213-220-207-166.net.upcbroadband.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:36:03 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: cygwin started speaking German today Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:36:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <7856072A9D04C24B82DFE2B1112FE38A0C27492B56@MCHP058A.global-ad.net> <201109081246.23238.bruno@clisp.org> <4E68AF35.9030002@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <201109082344.55506.bruno@clisp.org> <4E69D9EA.2050004@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20110909145921.GA27289@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00126.txt.bz2 * Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 9 Sep 2011 16:59:21 +0200) > And above all, there *is* an official way for the user to align the > Cygwin locale with the Windows locale [...] Misses the point. Users who chose to have a specific language environment most likely want to have this choice of language for all their applications. All localized applications should honor that and there should be no need to explicitly "align" anything. This is the way it's handled on Linux and Windows. Thorsten -- 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