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Re: Windows NTFS UCS2 characters
Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > So you're limited to ANSI filenames in the current codepage, I think.
>
> Not sure what ANSI means in this context (if you meant ASCII, or 7-bit,
> then the codepage reference makes no sense). If the codepage is set
> correctly, Cygwin will read those files.
I meant ANSI in the context of the win32 API, i.e. -A/-W. I realize
that ANSI here is not really the proper term, but I could not think of a
more compact way to say "filenames consisting entirely of code points
belonging to the current 8-bit code page."
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/31/144893.aspx
Brian
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