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24.2.50; selection-coding-system is set to ANSI code page on Cygw32

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Kazuhiro Ito <kzhr <at> d1.dion.ne.jp>, 12739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12739: 24.2.50; selection-coding-system is set to ANSI code page on Cygw32
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 22:25:44 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> On Cygw32, it seems that cache_system_info (in src/w32fns.c) is never
>> called.
>
> It should be called early on during startup, so perhaps a cygw32-only
> call to it near the beginning of 'main' is all that's needed.

I don't have a cygw32 system, but I have a cygw64, and there:

----
selection-coding-system is a variable defined in ‘select.el’.

Its value is ‘utf-16le-dos’
----

Is this still an issue on cygw32 systems, or has it gone away in the
eight years since this was reported?

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