Re: Unicode filename patch

[Ville Herva <vherva at niksula dot hut dot fi>]

On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 02:09:52PM +0100, you [Chris January] wrote:            
> > Hi,                                                                         
> >                                                                             
> > I haven't been able to follow cygwin ml for a while (too busy at            
> > work ;( ),                                                                  
> > but did Christopher Faylor ever consider merging the unicode                
> > filename patch                                                              
> > you created? I followed CVS for a while, but it didn't appear there (I      
> > haven't checked lately, though.)                                            
> Ask on cygwin-patches what Chris wants to do with it. It's best discussed     
> there.                                                                        
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> BTW, the patch is not complete; certain functions don't work. It's main       
> purpose was to allow reading and writing files with Unicode filenames -       
> something that wasn't possible at all before.                                 
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> Saying that, it did work quite well with UTF8 aware shell tools and a UTF8    
> terminal.                                                                     
                                                                                
cgf, to give you some context (I hope you read this :) : I originally begged    
for unicode filename support a couple of months ago. Chris January very         
kindly went ahead and implemented a patch that enabled accessing unicode        
filenames through their utf8 name.                                              
                                                                                
See the discussion in thread starting at                                        
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg00006.html.                      
                                                                                
The executive summary is that when one has unicode filenames (russian,          
chinese, whatever) it is currently not possible to access them _at_all_ with    
cygwin. Chris's patch makes it possible to do so.                               
                                                                                
But Chris (and I) haven't heard any comment from you or Corinna whether this    
is worthwhile...                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
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