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Re: Unicode filename patch
- From: Ville Herva <vherva at niksula dot hut dot fi>
- To: "Cygwin-Patches at Cygwin dot Com" <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:35:04 +0300
- Subject: Re: Unicode filename patch
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 02:09:52PM +0100, you [Chris January] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I haven't been able to follow cygwin ml for a while (too busy at
> > work ;( ),
> > but did Christopher Faylor ever consider merging the unicode
> > filename patch
> > you created? I followed CVS for a while, but it didn't appear there (I
> > haven't checked lately, though.)
> Ask on cygwin-patches what Chris wants to do with it. It's best discussed
> there.
>
> BTW, the patch is not complete; certain functions don't work. It's main
> purpose was to allow reading and writing files with Unicode filenames -
> something that wasn't possible at all before.
>
> Saying that, it did work quite well with UTF8 aware shell tools and a UTF8
> terminal.
cgf, to give you some context (I hope you read this :) : I originally begged
for unicode filename support a couple of months ago. Chris January very
kindly went ahead and implemented a patch that enabled accessing unicode
filenames through their utf8 name.
See the discussion in thread starting at
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg00006.html.
The executive summary is that when one has unicode filenames (russian,
chinese, whatever) it is currently not possible to access them _at_all_ with
cygwin. Chris's patch makes it possible to do so.
But Chris (and I) haven't heard any comment from you or Corinna whether this
is worthwhile...
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