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diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml index ea2b9044a..c2f83848f 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml @@ -368,11 +368,20 @@ formfeed character to your file. <para>Internationalization is a complex issue. The short answer is that Cygwin relies on the setting of the CYGWIN environment variable as well -as on the setting of LANG environment variable. The underlying C library, -newlib, only supports a small subset of LANG settings. The default is "C". -To get UTF-8 support you must set LANG to "C-UTF-8" and CYGWIN so that -it contains "codepage:utf8". -</para> +as on the setting of LANG/LC_xxx environment variables.</para> + +<para>To get UTF-8 support you must set the environment variable CYGWIN +so that it contains the substring "codepage:utf8". This is required in +Cygwin so far to get correct translation from Windows wide character +filenames to their UTF-8 counterpart. Applications on the other hand +require the setting of the LANG, LC_ALL, or LC_CTYPE environment variables. +To get UTF-8 support you can set, for instance, $LANG to "en_US.UTF-8". +This will give you support for the UTF-8 character set. Note that the +language part has to contain a valid language specifier, but is otherwise +so far ignored by newlib, the underlying C library. There's no support +for correct language-specific collation, monetary or date/time-related +string handling. This is planned for a later release, though.</para> + <para>To type international characters (£äö) in <literal>bash</literal>, add the following lines to your <literal>~/.inputrc</literal> file and restart <literal>bash</literal>: |