X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4803583D.7040402@wpkg.org> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:12:29 +0200 From: Tomasz Chmielewski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061110 Mandriva/1.5.0.8-1mdv2007.1 (2007.1) Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames? References: <20080411162234.GS23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <47FF9A97.3090804@wpkg.org> <20080412082628.GY23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <480088A7.4010106@wpkg.org> <20080412110031.GA17933@calimero.vinschen.de> <480099B6.8000406@wpkg.org> <20080414092051.GL23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <48032429.5040402@wpkg.org> <20080414104744.GR23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <48033CC2.2020306@wpkg.org> <20080414124342.GA5790@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20080414124342.GA5790@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Corinna Vinschen schrieb: (...) >> So that character is "f021". > > I should have thought about that from the beginning. Well, there's no > workaround and there will be no patch for this. The problem is that > this character value is within the 0xf000-0xf0ff range. This range is > part of the UNICODE block 95, "Private Use Area". There is by > definition no valid UNICODE character assigned within this area and > Cygwin reserves the right to use this 0xf000-0xf0ff for its own > purposes. Besides, I have a hard time to imagine how a user could > create a filename with this value except wantonly. > > The range from 0xf000-0xf0ff is used by Cygwin 1.7.0 to map special > characters which are disallowed in DOS filenames. You can use every > other UNICODE character in Cygwin, except for these values. I see. Thanks a lot for your support. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org -- 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/