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Re: Segfault under cygwin 1.7.62


2009/10/12 Aidan Kehoe:
>  > and how does it change unexpectedly in terms of POSIX/Cygwin operations?
>  > And, importantly, what's the locale setting?
>
> Weâre testing our handling of the file name encoding; we want to make sure
> we can create a file with this name when we force the file name encoding to
> ISO-8859-2.
>
> We probably shouldnât be converting to Unicode at all for file name encoding
> on Cygwin, we should use file-name-coding-system as determined by the locale
> like on every other Unix.

Yep, for Cygwin 1.7 at least, that'd definitely be the right thing to
do. Cygwin will automatically and transparently convert between the
charset specified in the locale and Windows' UTF-16 filenames.

Andy

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