Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 24 21:45, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 4/6/2009 5:04 AM: Please note that eucJP does not work by default on Windows XP and earlier OSes! At least not on the so-called western languages installations, US, French,

Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 25 10:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 24 21:45, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 4/6/2009 5:04 AM: Please note that eucJP does not work by default on Windows XP and earlier OSes! At least not on the

Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 9/25/2009 4:06 AM: 2009-09-24 Eric Blake e...@byu.net * setup2.sgml (setup-locale-problems): Document how to install non-default charsets. Shoot. Btw., it's not only 20932/EUC-JP. The full list is

Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 25 18:27, Thomas Wolff wrote: Btw., it's not only 20932/EUC-JP. The full list is 932/SJIS, 936/EUC-KR, 949/GBK, 950/Big5, 20932/EUC-JP. Probably it makes sense to note all of them. I think, looking at other information, two have been interchanged here: 936 should be GBK 949

Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-09-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 4/6/2009 5:04 AM: Please note that eucJP does not work by default on Windows XP and earlier OSes! At least not on the so-called western languages installations, US, French, Italian, whatever. The reason is that

Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-04-07 Thread neomjp
On 2009/04/07 3:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I would nevertheless be glad if you would write something up about them, so we have it in the records should we ever re-examine this issue. Just for information. Sorry it has become very long... I thought I should write some background

Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-04-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 7 22:01, neomjp wrote: On 2009/04/07 3:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I would nevertheless be glad if you would write something up about them, so we have it in the records should we ever re-examine this issue. Just for information. Sorry it has become very long... I thought I

Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 4 02:32, neomjp wrote: LANG=en_US.ISO-2022-JP 000 71 71 0e e4 b8 80 0a q q so d 8 nul nl 007 This must be identical to: 000 71 71 1b 24 42 30 6c 1b 28 42 0a q q esc $ B 0 l esc ( B nl 013 After some long

Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 7 02:51, neomjp wrote: On 2009/04/06 20:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: After some long mulling over this problem, I gave up on supporting JIS. So, I removed JIS support from Cygwin again. Given that SJIS and eucJP are both available, this shoudn't pose a big problem for Japanese

Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-04-06 Thread neomjp
On 2009/04/06 20:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: After some long mulling over this problem, I gave up on supporting JIS. So, I removed JIS support from Cygwin again. Given that SJIS and eucJP are both available, this shoudn't pose a big problem for Japanese users. Ok, I understand. I

Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-04-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 3 21:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 4 02:32, neomjp wrote: [...] But it failed for JIS/ISO-2022-JP and eucJP. (It was represented as ASCII SO(0x0e)/UTF-8 sequence). What is going wrong here? What makes the file name conversion from UTF-16 to these character sets to fail?

Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-04-04 Thread Andy Moreton
On Sat 04 Apr 2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 3 21:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 4 02:32, neomjp wrote: [...] But it failed for JIS/ISO-2022-JP and eucJP. (It was represented as ASCII SO(0x0e)/UTF-8 sequence). What is going wrong here? What makes the file name conversion

Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-04-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 4 14:48, Andy Moreton wrote: On Sat 04 Apr 2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 3 21:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 4 02:32, neomjp wrote: [...] But it failed for JIS/ISO-2022-JP and eucJP. (It was represented as ASCII SO(0x0e)/UTF-8 sequence). What is going

[1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-04-03 Thread neomjp
On 2009/04/02 22:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Btw., it's really not tricky to create a filename with special characters: I used this Corinna's tiny program (http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-04/msg00053.html ) to create a file with a name containing a CJK character and tested how setting

Re: [1.7] Support for CJK Character Sets

2009-04-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 4 02:32, neomjp wrote: I used this Corinna's tiny program (http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-04/msg00053.html ) to create a file with a name containing a CJK character and tested how setting LANG works. I changed 0x20ac to 0x4e00 (CJK Ideograph, First). This is one of the