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diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 95d248ae6..817d074b8 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2010-02-07 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + + * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.2): Add support for locales from + /usr/share/locale/locale.alias. + * setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Ditto. + 2010-02-06 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> * setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Align description of working modifiers diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml index 40a283b9e..8de7da795 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ <listitem><para> Cygwin now handles locales using the underlying Windows locale support. The locale must exist in Windows to be recognized. + Locale aliases from the file /usr/share/locale/locale.alias are also + allowed, as long as their replacement is supported by the underlying Windows. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> diff --git a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml index 0f236f6be..07a69c117 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml @@ -204,6 +204,25 @@ manual pages on the homepage of the </screen> <para> +If the locale specifier does not follow the above form, Cygwin checks +if the locale is one of the locale aliases defined in the file +<filename>/usr/share/locale/locale.alias</filename>. If so, and if +the replacement localename is supported by the underlying Windows, +the locale is accepted, too. So, given the default content of the +<filename>/usr/share/locale/locale.alias</filename> file, the below +examples would be valid locale specifiers as well. +</para> + +<screen> + "catalan" defined as "ca_ES.ISO-8859-1" in locale.alias + "japanese" defined as "ja_JP.eucJP" in locale.alias + "turkish" defined as "tr_TR.ISO-8859-9" in locale.alias +</screen> + +<para>The file <filename>/usr/share/locale/locale.alias</filename> is +provided by the gettext package under Cygwin.</para> + +<para> At application startup, the application's locale is set to the default "C" or "POSIX" locale. Under Cygwin 1.7.2 and later, this locale defaults to the ASCII character set on the application level. If you want to stick |