On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Colin JN Breame wrote: > Hello, > Could anyone direct me to some documentation about how cygwin decodes > filenames (e.g. with ls)
Cygwin is not Unicode-aware (<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>). Basically, it uses the Win32 API methods that make the underlying filesystem map from Unicode names to an 8-bit charset (set by your "Regional Settings"). Any names that can't be so mapped are rejected as invalid, and are displayed with '?'s by "ls". Switching to the correct language allows accessing those names. See MSDN for more info. Sometimes, the terminal treats some characters in the charset as control characters, and doesn't display them proprely. Programs need to be told not to do anything special with them, e.g., I have the following aliases: alias ls='ls -F --color=tty --show-control-chars' alias less='less -SR' (note the "--show-control-chars" option to "ls" and the "-R" option to "less"). > ps. cygwin is cool Yes, it is. And getting cooler every day. :-D Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/
