[cross-posted to cygwin list] Background for cygwin list: Dave discovered a problem running some of the gcc tests. The tests were run in the "C" locale, but in so doing they assumed an ascii encoding (specifically, that "'" would match ' in test patterns -- but the program actually emitted those fancy curled quotes which did not match ').
Dave Korn wrote: > Thanks, that was it. Had to use "C.CP437" in the end, apparently we have > charset encoding names for lots of OEM code pages but none for plain vanilla > ASCII. That's interesting. I had thought "ascii" was a fairly common encoding name; I know I've seen both 'encoding="ascii"' and 'encoding="us-ascii"' in XML documents. Maybe we (cygwin) should add an explicit plain-old-ascii encoding name? -- Chuck
