+2010-02-10 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+ * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.2): Add LC_MESSAGES support.
+ * setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Change "@euro" modifier description.
+ (setup-locale-missing): Remove.
+
2010-02-07 Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-misc): Fix typo.
<listitem><para>
LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME localization is
- enabled via Windows locale support.
+ enabled via Windows locale support. LC_MESSAGES is enabled via a big
+ table with localized strings.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
-<listitem><para>For languages which default to the ISO-8859-1 character
-set, the modifier "@euro" can be added to enforce usage of the ISO-8859-15
-character set, which includes a character for the "Euro" currency sign.
-Beware, that also works for non-european locales.
+<listitem><para>
+For locales which use the Euro (EUR) as currency, the modifier "@euro"
+can be added to enforce usage of the ISO-8859-15 character set, which
+includes a character for the "Euro" currency sign.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
</sect2>
-<sect2 id="setup-locale-missing"><title>What does not work?</title>
-
-<para>
-The environment variable and locale setting <envar>LC_MESSAGES</envar>
-is ignored right now. There's no known WIndows function to fetch the
-regular expressions to recognize user input with the meaning of "yes"
-or "no" from some Windows function. Therefore,
-<function>nl_langinfo(YESEXPR)</function> and
-<function>nl_langinfo(NOEXPR)</function> always return a string
-suitable only for the English language.</para>
-
-<para>If somebody knows a simple solution to this problem, feel free
-to notify us on the
-<ulink url="mailto:cygwin@cygin.com">Cygwin mailing list</ulink>.
-</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
<sect2 id="setup-locale-charsetlist"><title>List of supported character sets</title>
<para>Last but not least, here's the list of currently supported character