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diff --git a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml index 15e581768..9c9e7a12d 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ another charset, you can define this by setting one of the locale environment variables to "C.charset". For instance</para> <screen> - "C.ISO-9959-1" + "C.ISO-8859-1" </screen> <para>Windows uses the UTF-16 charset exclusively to store the names @@ -185,9 +185,15 @@ of any object used by the Operating System. This is especially important with filenames. Cygwin uses the setting of the locale environment variables <envar>LC_ALL</envar>, <envar>LC_CTYPE</envar>, and <envar>LANG</envar>, to determine how to convert Windows filenames from their UTF-16 representation -to the singlebyte or multibyte character set used by Cygwin. Setting +to the singlebyte or multibyte character set used by Cygwin.</para> + +<para> +The setting of the locale environment variables at process startup +is effective for Cygwin's internal conversions to and from the Windows UTF-16 +object names for the entire lifetime of the current process. Changing the environment variables to another value changes the way filenames are -converted in subsequently stated programs.</para> +converted in subsequently started child processes, but not within the same +process.</para> <para> However, even if one of the locale environment variables is set to |