X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:11:54 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10 Message-ID: <20111213151154.GG23590@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <566vd7hfmi3j980ic4m64d7bv91b5qm6uh@4ax.com> <20111207173808.GA25743@calimero.vinschen.de> <20111207180653.GB25743@calimero.vinschen.de> <20111208083935.GC6602@calimero.vinschen.de> <20111212132633.GC23590@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 Dec 12 23:07, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > > Would it be ok if it works the old way (WIN_A uses the Cygwin codeset) > > for applications built under 1.7.9 and earlier, and the new way (WIN_A > > uses Win32 ANSI/OEM codepage) for applications built under 1.7.10 and > > later? That means the current lyx continues to work and you can patch > > lyx upstream accordingly to follow the new behaviour. > > This would certainly preserve backward compatibility, so it is Ok. > However, may I suggest to add two other enums, namely, CCP_WIN_TO_POSIX > and CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN, that preserve encoding? > This is also useful, as not always one has to convert to/from Windows > style paths for calling native APIs. Never mind. I reverted the change so the WIN_A conversion will stick to the Cygwin codeset. 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