Re: [bug-gawk] GAWK for Windows does not work properly with UTF-8

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 07:31:18 +0100
> From: Marc de Bourget <address@hidden>
> 
> Thank you, Eli. UTF-8 is the future

Please tell that to Microsoft bunch, so that they include support for
that in Windows.

> so there should be native UTF-8 support with GAWK in the near future.

Patches are welcome, of course.  But I very much doubt that something
like that will happen any time soon, unless sweeping changes are made
in Gawk, as part of a larger effort of making Gawk programs that use
non-ASCII characters portable.  Right now, Gawk only supports the
non-ASCII characters recognizable and supported by the current
locale's codeset.

> People on the newsgroup say that the Cygwin version works correctly with 
> UTF-8 for Windows, is it true?

Cygwin pretends to be living in the UTF-8 locale, that's true.