On May 13 11:41, Jason Pyeron wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:30: > > On May 12 19:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On May 13 02:29, IWAMURO Motonori wrote: > >>> I propose that the filename encoding in C locale uses UTF-8 instead > >>> of SO/UTF-8. > >>> > >>> There are three reasons: > >> > >> That's an interesting thought. Do you have a patch and, if so, did > >> you try it? Does it, for instance, help for the issue reported in > >> the thread starting at > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00245.html? > > > > After examining the issue Lenik reported in the above thread, > > I'm at a loss how to solve this problem in a generic way. > > > > I may be dense, as all of my internationlization experience was from the late > 90's. But in my experience the only solution for this is a cognizant effort on > behalf of the user (or admin). > [...] > > Any better ideas? > > Not necessarily better, but here is a chart: > > Sys: App: function expects/returns > NULL: NULL: UTF-8 > C/UA: NULL: UTF-8 > NULL: C/UA: UTF-8 > C/UA: C/UA: UTF-8 > SPEC: NULL: System Locale > SPEC: C/UA: UTF-8 > NULL SPEC: Application Locale > C/UA: SPEC: Application Locale > SPEC: SPEC: Application Locale
What I just implemented basically matches the above, except for SPEC: NULL: System Locale This will also use UTF-8. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
