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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:33:38 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: non latin file names?
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In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20001024204212.00d02b90@pop.bresnanlink.net>; from cabbey@chartermi.net on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:26:05PM -0500

On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:26:05PM -0500, Chris Abbey wrote:
>>I'm not going to do it because I have no experience in doing it
>>and little interest in learning how to do it.
>
>interest in i18n/l17n aren't really needed... that code,
>at least the conversion tables that are iconv/gconv are
>there... what's needed is to make them available to programs
>in cygwin (jikes could make use of it today, hence my interest)
>then as the general i18n/l17n work takes place in the GNU World
>(groan, bad pun) it can be readily absorbed by cygwin (ie. to
>tie this back to the start of the thread, ls will someday learn
>how to display ó in the general gnu-fileutils; when it does,
>cygwin will be ready. That second part btw is a massive effort,
>and one that a handfull of big companies (IBM) are looking at
>very hard.)

If no changes to cygwin1.dll are required then this is a possibility.
Otherwise, due to licensing considerations we can't just take GPL'ed
code that is owned by another entity into Cygwin or newlib.  So, it is
not necessarily this simple, unfortunately.

cgf

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