On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:03:07 -0500, "Larry Hall" wrote: > > Mariusz Wodzicki wrote: > > > > I would like to reopen the discussion about utf-8 support in cygwin. > > > > SIXTEEN months passed since there were some exchanges about it > > on the cygwin mail list. > > > > The lack of support for filenames with non-Latin1 characters is > > currently the MOST SEVERE LIMITATION of cygwin in my opinion. > > > > Due to the international nature of internet more and more of us > > are getting all sorts of files with utf-8 filenames. > > > > In presence of such files in our file systems, all the basic > > commands are broken (ls, cp, mv, diff, rsync, et cetera). > > > > This becomes more and more annoying with every passing day. > > > > What is the current situation? When can we expect that > > this problem gets resolved? > > Work is going on in CVS (the eventual 1.7.x series) to handle long file > names/paths. This will enable Unicode internally at least. Check out > CVS and lend a hand if you're able.
One quickie note - adding (or porting) 'mlterm' [1] to be included in the list of "available" applications would be VERY worth while thing to do (its a great UTF-8 terminal emulator). I know a number of people who actively use it on a daily basis (ask the Arabic community - arabeyes.org) to view/edit/munge files and their contents. [1] http://mlterm.sf.net Regards... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/ -- 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/
