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Re: UTF-8 Cygwin
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:54:45 -0400
- Subject: Re: UTF-8 Cygwin
- References: <20060816194059.95551.qmail@web32611.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 04:40:59PM -0300, Paulo Castro wrote:
>I would like to ask that the decision to reject Mr Suzuki Hisao's patch
>to include UTF-8 file name support in Cygwin was reconsidered. I've
>read the discussion between Mr Suzuki Hisao and Mr Christopher Faylor
>(cygwin-patches mail list, thread "UTF-8 Cygwin", 26 Jun - 06 Jul
>2006), and Christopher's arguments didn't convince me: as it appears,
>it was mostly an issue with function wrappers not being a solution as
>clean and elegant as the ideal. The alternative would be a major
>redesign in Cygwin that would require considerable additional efforts
>which no one seems to be willing to undertake at this time.
Sorry but we don't accept flawed patches just because they add desired
functionality. I don't think the cygwin project is alone in adopting
this type of rule.
cgf
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