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Date:	Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:05:32 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin - test results and observations
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On Feb 14 15:56, Andrey Repin wrote:
> > But this is a problem not different from Linux.  If you have a username
> > with non-ASCII chars, it will use *some* encoding in the passwd DB,
> > usually UTF-8 these days.  If you then change the codeset in your
> > application, you will still get your username in UTF-8.  It won't be
> > changed on the fly, just because your application calls setlocale.
>=20
> I understand it (mostly), but there's actually two issues, not one.
> One issue is the display part, where names are output for user consumptio=
n.
> Another can be observed in, i.e., rsync, and file access in general (reme=
mber
> the discussion about accessing long directory names in unicode).
> Changing LANG variable DO matter for the latter, and you may only hope th=
at
> whatever is output in the former case is actually printable (thank God, m=
ost
> of the time it actually is, in case of UTF-8).
> It is getting even more complicated, when you consider the fact, that in
> Windows you have 2 different single-byte encodings, so-called ANSI (for G=
UI
> applications) and OEM (for console). And alot of stuff making assumptions
> without consulting with current status of things.
> As convoluted the problem is, I think, we need some sort of solution, or =
at
> the very least - documentation.

Sorry, I can't provide an easy solution, and afaik this is documented.


Corinna

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