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Re: Windows NTFS UCS2 characters


On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Brian Dessent wrote:

> John Love-Jensen wrote:
>
> > I can always fallback to use scripts for CMD.EXE to manipulate these
> > files; but I'd rather be able to do it in my Bash shell scripts.
> >
> > Please don't suggest Interix, SFU or MKS alternatives.  Those are fine
> > products, I'm sure, but I'm not interested.
>
> I'm afraid you're probably just out of luck.  If I understand the
> problem Cygwin currently does not use wide characters internally for
> filenames/pathnames, nor does it support any locale other than "C"/posix
> (the latter due to newlib limitations.)

The former is true, the latter is half-true.  Cygwin works with the
default codepage when the Windows locale settings are set correctly.  You
cannot *switch* locales programmatically from within Cygwin, but it can
handle the full 8-bit charset just fine.

> So you're limited to ANSI filenames in the current codepage, I think.

Not sure what ANSI means in this context (if you meant ASCII, or 7-bit,
then the codepage reference makes no sense).  If the codepage is set
correctly, Cygwin will read those files.

> There is a site out there that maintains a UTF-8 modified Cygwin, and
> these changes have been submitted for inclusion, but the wrapper method
> used did not meet technical muster and so it will remain a third-party
> fork.  I am sure everyone would love to see a wchar-sporting Cygwin but
> to do it right will affect a lot of code paths and so it's no trivial
> undertaking.

Right.
	Igor
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