Re: i18n: readdir API implementation

2005-05-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 12:55:39PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On 5/7/05, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >>Primarily, I am interested in the rationale behind using the ASCII >>variants of the w32api system calls, FindFirstFileA and FindNextFileA, >>as opposed to using the wide-character variants Fi

Re: i18n: readdir API implementation

2005-05-08 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 5/7/05, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > Primarily, I am interested in the rationale behind using the ASCII > variants of the w32api system calls, FindFirstFileA and FindNextFileA, > as opposed to using the wide-character variants FindFirstFileW and > FindNextFileW. I believe the reason is simply that t

i18n: readdir API implementation

2005-05-07 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I've known for sometime that there are limitations to the the internationalization support provided by the cygwin dll. Specifically, the POSIX readdir implementation returns dirent names where non US-ASCII characters default to ASCII '?' character. I am sympathetic to the difficulties involved