X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:56:16 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cyg1.7 - DOS character remapping: change request. Message-ID: <20091130145616.GB26761@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4B0B21E0.3050909@tlinx.org> <4B0B5433.8020603@byu.net> <4B0B610D.6080709@tlinx.org> <20091124085022.GR29173@calimero.vinschen.de> <20091124090646.GS29173@calimero.vinschen.de> <4B10FA45.6060605@tlinx.org> <4B111536.7090904@byu.net> <4B12F787.3050006@tlinx.org> <416096c60911292339v2ea3dc4et508ffe98a725efea@mail.gmail.com> <4B13D7A6.7030407@towo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B13D7A6.7030407@towo.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Nov 30 15:33, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Andy Koppe wrote: > >2009/11/29 Linda Walsh: > They are actually listed in all CJK character sets (checking i18n > data). Whether this was really used or not, it makes their view as > "presentation forms" weaker. > > >>_I_ use those [wide ASCII chars] in filesnames, > >>and know of no compatibility problems having them > >>treated as 'real' ascii characters under cygwin -- > >>since I am just using them for 'display' purposes > >>in file names like like "Music:the group:title 1/3". > >Sounds like you've found a good solution there already. The wide forms > >show up correctly in Explorer, Cygwin, and via Samba, don't they? > > > >To make them more convenient to use, you could add them to your > >keyboard layout using Microsoft's Keyboard Layout Creator, e.g. with > >AltGr+':' for the wide colon. > Sounds like a good proposal. On the other hand, I can also understand Linda. > Trying to conciliate, what about a $CYGWIN option to map pathname > ":" to filesystem fullwidth "???" etc? > To meet concerns of unambigous filename representation, it could > also be a one-way option, so mapping back filesystem "???" to > itself, and the Interix code to ASCII ":". Definitely not for 1.7.1, and from my POV this complicates the code unnecessarily in the long run as well. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple