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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:56:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA] defs.h: Define GDB_DEFAULT_TARGET_[WIDE_]CHARSET for Cygwin and MingW builds
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> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:05:00 +0100
> From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
> 
> +/* The default output charset for Cygwin is UTF-8.  The default output
> +   charset for Win32 is the default ANSI codepage of the system, which
> +   depends on the localization of the underlying Windows system.  However,
> +   CP1252 is a good default replacement for ISO-8859-1 at least. */
> +#if defined (__CYGWIN__)
> +#define GDB_DEFAULT_TARGET_CHARSET "UTF-8"
> +#elif defined (_WIN32)
> +#define GDB_DEFAULT_TARGET_CHARSET "CP1252"
> +#endif

Why cp1252? why not detect the ANSI codepage at run time, and make
more non-Latin users happy?