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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2009-10-28 10:09:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2009-10-28 10:09:54 +0000 |
| commit | 641ba32982ab2129d3ad532a2289c87bf0847643 (patch) | |
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* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-posix): Mention UTF-8 as "C" default
and the default locale "C.UTF-8".
* setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Ditto.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml index 9c9e7a1..99558f4 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml @@ -180,6 +180,9 @@ variables to "C.charset". For instance</para> "C.ISO-8859-1" </screen> +<para>The default locale in the absence of the aforementioned locale +environment variables is "C.UTF-8".</para> + <para>Windows uses the UTF-16 charset exclusively to store the names of any object used by the Operating System. This is especially important with filenames. Cygwin uses the setting of the locale environment variables @@ -206,7 +209,10 @@ own purpose, typically by using the call</para> setlocale (LC_ALL, ""); </screen> -<para>early in the application code.</para> +<para>early in the application code. Again, so that this doesn't get +lost: If the application calls setlocale as above, and there is none +of the important locale variables set in the environment, the locale +is set to the default locale, which is "C.UTF-8".</para> <para> Right now the language and territory, as well as the modifier, are not |