2009/8/8 Tony Lewis:
> According to the documentation, passing an empty string to iconv denotes
> locale dependent character encoding. This leads me to conclude that by
> default on cygwin:
>
> cd = iconv_open("UTF-16LE", "");
>
> should produce the same encodings as:
>
> cd = iconv_open("UTF-16LE", "ISO-8859-1");Nope, the default codepage on Cygwin is your Windows' default "ANSI" codepage, i.e. probably 1252. > but it doesn't for characters in the range 0x80 to 0x9f. Is there a way to > set my locale within cygwin so that "" means "ISO-8859-1" to iconv_open? Cygwin 1.7's setlocale() reads the standard environment variables: LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG. (On Cygwin 1.5 there's a codepage setting in the CYGWIN variable, but I don't think that affects setlocale().) Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
