Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-WM-Posted-At: avacado.atomice.net; Wed, 24 Jul 02 21:12:02 +0100 Message-ID: <00a201c2334e$5fe2a5f0$0100a8c0@atomice.net> From: "Chris January" To: References: <3D3DBFF0.1070704@cox.net> <3D3999D5.2080904@cox.net> <91341174502.20020722110344@logos-m.ru> <5.1.0.14.2.20020722174321.02b7a340@pop3.cris.com> <3D3DBFF0.1070704@cox.net> <20020723160156.A39594@reliant.immure.com> <20020723171220.A40264@reliant.immure.com> Subject: Re: Valid file-name characters Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:12:02 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > AIX supports unicode, not sure about others though. > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:19:28PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > Wayne, > > > > As far back as Unix v6 (for a quaint old processor called the PDP-11) the > > only characters forbidden for use in Unix path names were the slash and the > > NUL. > > > > Just out of curiosity, are there any Unix or Unix-alike systems with > > Unicode file name support? Linux? Windows? I don't know what you mean by Windows? here, but Windows NT/2000/XP use native Unicode filenames. They are converted to/from ANSI as appropriate for compatibility with programs targetted for the more crippled Windows platforms. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/