Many thanks to all the experts who kindly answered my question. I am sorry to
know that I cannot use cygwin for sorting texts with languages other than
English, but it was important for me to know if locales was supported or not.
Unfortunately, fro lack of competence I cannot be the one who
I hope this is not a FAQ -- I duly checked FAQs and googled for a while. From
some messages, I found that LOCALE is not supported by cygwin. Is this true
also for the version I mention in the subject?
My problem is basically related to sort: I tried to export LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE
and LANG for
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Guido Milanese wrote:
I hope this is not a FAQ -- I duly checked FAQs and googled for a while.
From some messages, I found that LOCALE is not supported by cygwin. Is
this true also for the version I mention in the subject?
The version that you mention in the subject just
From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Guido Milanese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
The version that you mention in the subject just says that
you're
running Cygwin on Win2k. It doesn't say anything about the actual
version of Cygwin.
Thanks,sorry: v.1.5.16-1
There's
There's very little support for LOCALE settings in Cygwin. Some
applications will switch the language of the help messages, etc, to the
extent gettext() supports it. I don't believe sort has locale-specific
collate support -- the coreutils maintainer might be a better person to
answer that.
At 06:13 PM 5/17/2005, you wrote:
Sort requires a working strcoll to do locale-dependent sorts. But newlib
(cygwin's library) provides only a strcoll that is HARD-CODED to the POSIX
(C) locale.
snip
In other words, unless someone submits a patch to cygwin with a compliant
strcoll, you are
In other words, unless someone submits a patch to cygwin with a compliant
strcoll, you are stuck with non-locale sorts on cygwin.
Don't you mean that newlib is the one that requires the patch?
Either place would work, but the philosophy of newlib is that it is for
embedded systems, and
At 07:02 PM 5/17/2005, you wrote:
In other words, unless someone submits a patch to cygwin with a compliant
strcoll, you are stuck with non-locale sorts on cygwin.
Don't you mean that newlib is the one that requires the patch?
Either place would work, but the philosophy of newlib is that
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