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* setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Fix typo in C+charset example. 

Rephrase how the locale environment variables are evaluated.
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2009-10-02 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Fix typo in C+charset example.
Rephrase how the locale environment variables are evaluated.
2009-09-30 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-file): Ctrl-X, not Ctrl-N.

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@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ another charset, you can define this by setting one of the locale environment
variables to "C.charset". For instance</para>
<screen>
"C.ISO-9959-1"
"C.ISO-8859-1"
</screen>
<para>Windows uses the UTF-16 charset exclusively to store the names
@ -185,9 +185,15 @@ of any object used by the Operating System. This is especially important
with filenames. Cygwin uses the setting of the locale environment variables
<envar>LC_ALL</envar>, <envar>LC_CTYPE</envar>, and <envar>LANG</envar>, to
determine how to convert Windows filenames from their UTF-16 representation
to the singlebyte or multibyte character set used by Cygwin. Setting
to the singlebyte or multibyte character set used by Cygwin.</para>
<para>
The setting of the locale environment variables at process startup
is effective for Cygwin's internal conversions to and from the Windows UTF-16
object names for the entire lifetime of the current process. Changing
the environment variables to another value changes the way filenames are
converted in subsequently stated programs.</para>
converted in subsequently started child processes, but not within the same
process.</para>
<para>
However, even if one of the locale environment variables is set to