From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Laimonas Vėbra" <laimonas.vebra@gmail.com>
Cc: 6546@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6546: win32 grep/shell utf-8 encoding
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:23:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r5iutgy4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C49910A.2010209@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:54:34 +0300
> From: Laimonas Vėbra <laimonas.vebra@gmail.com>
> CC: 6546@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> The only way it works is when i set LANG process-environment variable to
> >> the current windows locale codepage and 'coding-system-for-write' to the
> >> encoding/charset in which i'd like to grep.
> >
> > That's the only way it's _supposed_ to work.
>
> Then i suppose it's wrong/incorrect way of what is supposed to operate
> like that.
>
> Why? Because for the correct behaviour we (external app, Emacs)
> shouldn't require to set locale to some fixed setting; it should be
> freely changed as many cygwin apps relies on that.
You cannot easily change the locale of a Windows system by specifying
some environment variable. You need to actually switch it
system-wide. As long as we use ANSI APIs on Windows, we can only
support a single Windows locale, and that locale must be the current
user's locale.
> For example, how do you sort data with improper locale settings
> (which are required to be fixed)?
You can't, sorry.
> > Yes, this is the only setup that is supposed to work.
>
> Maybe it is/was suppose to work (at all) like that in the sense of
> workaround, but i doubt if it was/is supposed to be correct.
It cannot work in any other way with ANSI APIs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-23 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-01 8:46 bug#6546: win32 grep/shell utf-8 encoding Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-01 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-01 18:05 ` Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-22 12:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-22 14:11 ` Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-22 15:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-22 18:24 ` Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-22 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-22 21:48 ` Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-22 23:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-23 10:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-23 12:54 ` Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-23 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-07-23 15:50 ` Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-23 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-23 19:07 ` Laimonas Vėbra
2022-04-24 12:01 ` bug#6546: bug#6705: w32 cmdproxy.c pass args to cygwin; erroneous charset conversion (problem description, solution/suggestion) Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-24 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-24 13:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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