On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Corinna Vinschen > > http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-unusual
OK, got it. So Mr. Iwamuro's proposal is that Cygwin ignore the locale setting, and just automatically convert the Windows UTF-16 filenames to UTF-8 (and back) no matter what. That seems rife with possible confusion, though. If I have my codepage set to ISO-2022 and paste in a filename, I expect it to be interpreted as ISO-2022, not as UTF-8 (which will probably fail with an invalid encoding sequence). OTOH, the SO/UTF-8 hack would seem to bode ill for the portability of, say, tar archives created under Cygwin. -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.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/
