Re: gettext binaries for Cygwin

[Bruno Haible]

Denis Excoffier wrote:
> > If so, why is this patch present? Is it considered to be a feature?
> Yes it is. As a unix (or Linux, which is the target for Cygwin) user, i don’t 
> want to observe
> any interference between the Windows Control Panel, which is (presumably) 
> only used for non-unix features
> of the Windows system (but nevertheless including Cygwin-specific features 
> like e.g. the setup program) and
> unix programs typically run on the command line.
> For those, the result with LANG=C should be the same as the result without 
> setting LANG (with LC_* also not used of course).

I don't adhere to this point of view. Cygwin programs run in Windows,
present their results in Windows windows, communicate with Windows programs,
and therefore should obey the same configuration settings as other Windows
programs.

A user who does not want internationalization specifically for Cygwin programs
can do so by setting LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 (as documented in [1]).

But by default, the user expectation is that the Control Panel settings hold.
See e.g. [2].

Bruno

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Setting-the-POSIX-Locale.html
[2] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66491