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diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml index 7a6780a0e..872a90d8f 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,43 @@ <sect1 id="ov-new1.7"><title>What's new and what changed in Cygwin 1.7</title> +<sect2 id="ov-new1.7.2"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.1 to 1.7.2</title> + +<screen> +- Localization support has been much improved. + + - Cygwin now handles locales using the underlying Windows locale support. + The locale must exists in Windows to be recognized. + + - New tool "getlocale" to fetch valid locale values from Windows. + + - Default charset for locales without explicit charset is now choosen + from a list of Linx-compatible charsets. For instance en_US -> ISO-8859-1, + ja_JP -> EUC-JP. + + - Support for the @euro locale modifier to switch to the ISO-8859-15 + charset. + + - Default charset in the "C" or "POSIX" locale has been changed back from + UTF-8 to ASCII, to circumvent problems with applications expecting a + singlebyte charset in the "C"/"POSIX" locale. Still use UTF-8 internally + for filename conversion in this case. + + - LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME localization is enabled + via Windows locale support. + + - New strfmon(3) call. + +- Support open(2) flags O_CLOEXEC and O_TTY_INIT flags. Support + fcntl flag F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC. Support socket flags SOCK_CLOEXEC and + SOCK_NONBLOCK). + +- Add new Linux-compatible API calls accept4(2), dup3(2), and pipe2(2). + +- fnmatch(3) call is now multibyte-aware. +</screen> + +</sect2> + <sect2 id="ov-new1.7-os"><title>OS related changes</title> <screen> |