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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
To: "Cygwin AT Cygwin DOT Com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Cygwin UTF-8 support?
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:45:23 +0100
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For Eiji Hirai whose mail server is rejecting mail from Europe???

> > Chris:
> >
> > A while back, you mentioned that you were working on adding
> UTF-8 codepage
> > support into Cygwin.  Did you finish your modifications?
> >
> > I'm facing the same problem there you faced with open/fopen/readdir/etc
> > using UTF-8 filenames.
> >
> > If you have any modifications or patches, I'd love to see them if you're
> > willing to share.
> The patch should be in the cygwin-patches archive so that's the
> best place to start. I don't think I have the patch myself anymore.
> The patch allows you to read and write files with UTF8 filenames.
> You'll neeed a UTF8 compatible terminal (xterm?).
> It works by translating Unicode<=>UTF8. I can't gaurantee I've
> captured every place filenames are used, so some functions might not work.
>
> Chris


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