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Re: UTF-8 Cygwin
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:21:46 -0400
- Subject: Re: UTF-8 Cygwin
- References: <447FD382.3040705@oki.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
SUZUKI Hisao wrote:
> I made a patch to cygwin1.dll to support UTF-8.
>
> It allows you to use all of characters and file (or path) names
> allowed in Windows, while keeping binary-compatibility with the
> current Cygwin. It is fairly perfect except for lack of locale
> support etc. So it may remind you of the good old BeOS. See:
>
> http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/
Sounds interesting. Do you plan to submit these as patches to
the official sources so that everybody could benefit from them?
I feel compelled to remind readers of this thread that until
such changes are submitted and accepted, questions that arise
from those using this version of the DLL are off-topic for this
list.
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