[Bug 20517] temporary language switch causes permanent change of codepage

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20517





--- Comment #3 from Jörg Höhle <hoehle at users.sourceforge.net>  2009-10-30 04:33:17 ---
The problem is that Wine can be in
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
with either cp437 or cp850. There should be only one.

The codepage has an impact on some programs and should be set
deterministically, so users know what to expect.  Here I show that its value
depends on the history of language switches, not on the current language
setting.

Reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_850 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP437 it would seem that CP850 is a more
reasonable default for French and German (perhaps CP437 for LANG=C?), but I
don't know what would be best for apps running in Wine.


On the Mac, switching from German to French should be no reason to switch the
codepage -- so it seems naively, as I'd expect these two western european
languages to use the same codepage.  Maybe that's a distinct issue?

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