Re: regtool/registry interfacing and charset support

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jul 28 00:58, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I note that the regtool/registry interfacing do not yet support non  
> ASCII character sets:
>
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.0 somehost-vista 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-07-24 09:59 i686 Cygwin
> $ regtool get /machine/SOFTWARE/Cygwin/setup/rootdir
> C:\software\cygwin?
>
> where the trailing CJK character ??? has been hand added for testing.
>
> Is that right? Are there any plans in this area?

regtool still uses the ANSI API to access the registry.  This still has
to be converted to use the Unicode API and to convert to the current
locale and vice versa.  This won't be in 1.7.1.  Another TODO and a
simple change which could be done by somebody else as well:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC


Corinna

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