> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 13:21:07 +0000 > From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > Cc: Kiyoshi KANAZAWA <[email protected]>, Texinfo > <[email protected]> > > > Bother: what will that do on non-Posix systems, where the 'locale' > > command is not necessarily available, and even if it is, its output is > > generally irrelevant. E.g., I have a locale.exe on my system that > > came with the Windows port of Git -- it displays the locales which Git > > can handle, but any other native Windows program will not, and in > > particular native Windows programs cannot use UTF-8 as the locale's > > codeset anyway. I know that some users put the Git's bin directory on > > PATH, so for them invoking 'locale -a' will "succeed", and makeinfo > > will attempt to use the UTF-8 locale. > > As long as the output of "locale -a" has either "UTF-8" or "utf8" in > it, it should work fine: the actual name of the locale that is output > won't be used as long as w32_setlocale works.
I hope you are right.
