bug#12739: 24.2.50; selection-coding-system is set to ANSI code page on Cygw32

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@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’
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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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