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Re: man: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars
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Brian Dessent wrote:
> Oh. I see. That's unfortunate. But I don't understand something: I'm
> looking at the documentation for ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin which claims to
> contain platform-specific overrides for ExtUtils::MakeMaker, one of
> which is replace_manpage_separator that is documented as:
>
> replaces strings '::' with '.' in MAN*POD man page names
>
> It seems like this issue has already been considered and solved
> upstream. Why does this not kick in?
Because gtk2-perl (namely Glib::MakeHelper) uses a custom process for
building documentation: first, the PODs are generated from the XS, then
the manpages are generated from those PODs. These rules override the
ones generally provided by EU:MM.
> Well yes, case-sensitivity also has similar set of restrictions. But
> the support for illegal chars is implemented by mapping them into a
> Unicode private use area. FAT is codepage-based and doesn't support
> Unicode so I don't see how this could work.
The 1.7 UG mentions no such limitation by special chars, and a bit of
experimenting with my FAT-formatted USB stick seems to work. Of course,
1.5 chokes on them, but even Windows Explorer saw the file and was able
to delete it. Am I missing something here?
Yaakov
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