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From: nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com (Nicolas Pouillard)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:40:19 +0100
Subject: [sup-talk] the proper way of determining the encoding
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Excerpts from Nicolas Pouillard's message of Wed Jan 16 09:46:08 +0100 2008:
> Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Wed Jan 16 04:38:14 +0100 2008:
> > Reformatted excerpts from nicolas.pouillard's message of 2008-01-15:
> > > In locale_posix.rb:
> > > ...
> > >       [ENV["LC_ALL"], ENV["LC_MESSAGES"], ENV["LANG"],
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > In locale_win32.rb:
> > > ...
> > >       ["LC_ALL", "LC_CTYPE", "LC_MESSAGES", "LANG"].each do |env|
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > Adding LC_CTYPE to the first list solve my problem...
> > 
> > Excellent, sounds like a bug in gettext. If you submit a bug report,
> > would you mind cc'ing me?
> 
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=17133&group_id=855&atid=3377
> 

It's end by a "wont fix":

"""
Date: 2008-01-17 12:29
Sender: Masao Mutoh

LC_CTYPE is not for messaging. So locale_win32.rb was wrong.
And it removed in current CVS version.
"""

I  don't  know  much  about locale and encoding but I thought LC_CTYPE was a
good way of setting it.

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai