dg-error vs. i18n?

[Charles Wilson]

[cross-posted to cygwin list]

Background for cygwin list: Dave discovered a problem running some of
the gcc tests.  The tests were run in the "C" locale, but in so doing
they assumed an ascii encoding (specifically, that "'" would match ' in
test patterns -- but the program actually emitted those fancy curled
quotes which did not match ').

Dave Korn wrote:
> Thanks, that was it.  Had to use "C.CP437" in the end, apparently we have
> charset encoding names for lots of OEM code pages but none for plain vanilla
> ASCII.

That's interesting. I had thought "ascii" was a fairly common encoding
name; I know I've seen both 'encoding="ascii"' and 'encoding="us-ascii"'
in XML documents.  Maybe we (cygwin) should add an explicit
plain-old-ascii encoding name?

--
Chuck