> From: David Byron > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 20:21 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: filenames with characters that have the high bit set > > I've read http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.unicode and > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html but I'm still > stumped. > > My cygwin.bat now contains: > <snip> > > Thanks much. > > -DB
I think you've over-analyzed the problem and corrupted your environment with meta stuff and extra environment variables. The defaults work just right for me: $ touch foo$'\xc3\xa9' $ ls -l total 0 -rw-r-----+ 1 knellis knellis 0 2010-03-16 08:55 fooƩ $ test -f foo$'\xc3\xa9' $ echo $? 0 $ --Ken Nellis