On Dec 30 17:42, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:30:19PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 05:36:05PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote:
> >>I seem to have a problem with wildcards from the Windows command line
> >>when there are high-bit characters in a filename.
> >>
> >>A directory contains only the two files "user" and "anv?ndare"
> >>("anv?ndare" being user in Swedish):
> >>
> >> C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls -l
> >> total 0
> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 Bengt2 Users 0 2009-12-30 02:23 anv?ndare
> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 Bengt2 Users 0 2009-12-30 02:23 user
> >>
> >> C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls u*
> >> user
> >>
> >> C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls a*
> >> ls: cannot access a*: No such file or directory
> >
> >I get a different (and slightly more understandable) error
> >(not sure how this will translate to my email client from vnc):
> >
> >c:\tmp> ls a*
> >ls: cannot access anvA¤ndare: No such file or directory
> >autoruns.chm autoruns.exe autorunsc.exe
> >
> >I'm not really familiar with all of the changes that Corinna made
> >for this but I'll take a look to see if this is easy to fix.
>
> It looks like things should work better if you set LANG appropriately.
> For instance, this works for me:
>
> c:\>set LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> c:\>ls a*
>
> What's happening is that cygwin's readdir is converting the on-disk
> filename to utf-8 but cygwin's open/stat apparently aren't converting it
> back. As I said, I don't know enough about the labyrinthian multi-byte
> character set code that is now in cygwin but I really can't see how this
> could be anything other than a bug. If readdir() returns a filename
> then open should be able to open it.
Looks like this problem has been fixed in the latest developer snapshot
from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
Corinna
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