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Re: default codepage


On Jun 22 16:48, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Since the latest locale-related changes, the default codepage after 
> starting cygwin _without_ explicit setting (of a locale variable) 
> seems to have changed from CP1252 ("Windows ANSI") to ISO 8859-1 ("Latin 1").
> Was this change on purpose?

There was no such change at all.  The default codepage is still the
default ANSI codepage on your system.  The internal conversion from
Windows functions to the POSIX multibyte environment and vice versa
uses UTF-8, though, so that all existing filenames have a valid 
representation even when using characters not available in your
current codepage.


Corinna

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