* Arifi Koseoglu (2004-04-02 23:23 +0100) > 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?
*You* should know that otherwise trying to execute scripts is a waste of time. Ask Google as this is not Cygwin related. > Should I use another Unicode encoding (and how?) You might do that after you have investigated if bash supports it. > Or shoud I trash this method and try something else (what?). Use the ISO charset of your language. > There are thousands of files to be renamed. By using a shell (bash) script this should be a trivial task. Thorsten -- 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/
