X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 12:12:31 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows NTFS UCS2 characters In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <456F0E89.28B2E427@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > John Love-Jensen wrote: > > > > > I can always fallback to use scripts for CMD.EXE to manipulate these > > > files; but I'd rather be able to do it in my Bash shell scripts. > > > > > > Please don't suggest Interix, SFU or MKS alternatives. Those are fine > > > products, I'm sure, but I'm not interested. > > > > I'm afraid you're probably just out of luck. If I understand the > > problem Cygwin currently does not use wide characters internally for > > filenames/pathnames, nor does it support any locale other than "C"/posix > > (the latter due to newlib limitations.) > > The former is true, the latter is half-true. Cygwin works with the > default codepage when the Windows locale settings are set correctly. You > cannot *switch* locales programmatically from within Cygwin, but it can > handle the full 8-bit charset just fine. > > > So you're limited to ANSI filenames in the current codepage, I think. > > Not sure what ANSI means in this context (if you meant ASCII, or 7-bit, > then the codepage reference makes no sense). If the codepage is set > correctly, Cygwin will read those files. I forgot to add that to have ls actually show these files, you need to use the "--show-control-chars" option. Bash expansion just works, though. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/