Hello everyone. I have a question regarding the use of UTF-8 in a cygwin-bash shell script under windows XP and 2000 (does the behavior differ between 2000 and XP ?).
I have a bash script automatically generated with a Perl program, which is supposed to copy files from one disk to another and at the same time replace all international characters in the filename and path with english counterparts (for example c with cedilla becomes c). The lines in the shell script are all of the form: cp "source path with international chars in it" "target with no international chars" The shell script is generated/saved in UTF-8 encoding. (since it has to properly contain the international chars). By the way, with international I mean the additional characters in the Turkish alphabet - but the same question should apply to all non-english alphabets. Now, I cannot get the script to work. I can 'ls' the files using $ ls "source path with international chars in it" the listing displays the Turkish characters properly, however whenever I go ahead to execute the script, bash complains that "source path with international chars in it" cannot be found. What am I missing? Does bash not support scripts encoded in UTF-8? Should I use another Unicode encoding (and how?) Or shoud I trash this method and try something else (what?). There are thousands of files to be renamed. I will appreciate any pointers deeply. Many thanks in advance. Best, Arifi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
