Date:	Sat, 04 Jan 2003 13:15:12 +0300
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: ls in Windows 95 (fwd)
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> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 13:23:21 -0500 (EST)
> From: wkennedy AT softintegration DOT com (Walter Kennedy)
> 
> We have a Japanese user telling us that "ls" in Windows 95 cannot
> display the japanese file names.

This is because DJGPP programs, being essentially DOS executables,
get ``special'' treatment from Windows as far as non-ASCII characters
are considered.  Windows assumes that DOS programs support only the
OEM character set, and they translate all non-ASCII characters to
that character set when the text is passed to DOS programs.  This
includes file names.

In other words, if the Windows file names use character that are not
available in the OEM set used on that installation of Windows, DJGPP
programs will see gibberish.

In addition, many DJGPP library functions don't work well with
multibyte characters in file names.  Patches to fix that are welcome.

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