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To: egor duda <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Cc: Alexander Gotlib <alex AT cca DOT usart DOT ru>
Subject: Re: Why cygwin forced convert all input and output to OEM or ANSI ?
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From: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
Date: 25 Sep 2001 22:19:47 +0900
In-Reply-To: egor duda's message of Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:35:33 +0400
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Hi, Egor.

>>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:35:33 +0400
>>> egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru> said:

KF> The current Cygwin DLL doesn't support codepages other than
KF> OEM or ANSI in the current system locale, because Win32 APIs
KF> sensitive to the codepage can't handle them.
> 
> it's possible, i believe, to add something like CYGWIN=codepage:asis
> all codepage-specific functions do allow supplying any valid codepage
> to them with one exception: /dev/clipboard handling code.

Most of all file I/O functions don't allow codepages other than
OEM or ANSI.

In NTFS, these functions mutually translate filenames between
a codepage and UNICODE. They must know the codepage used to
represent filenames. But Win32 provides APIs only indicating OEM 
or ANSI, that is SetFileApisTo{ANSI,OEM}.
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  | HOKURIKU  Center for Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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