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Subject: RE: Unicode in filenames support?
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 14:17:02 -0400
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From: "Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)" <gsw AT agere DOT com>
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Not that I know of.  We're discussing to convert Cygwin's path
> handling to use Unicode for a while now, but it will take time. 
> Don't expect this any time soon.

I've been off of the developer list for a while now, and
now the archives are subscriber only. :-(

How are you thinking about doing this? At one point, I
created a framework that supported this. Unicode support
was actually just a side-effect--my real goal was to let
you use two files whose names differ only by case or use
files with otherwise illegal names such as "aux". I even
went so far as to create a project on SourceForge so that
I could release it into the public domain.

However, it was NTFS-specific and Cygwin went a different
route (which has path length limitations, but I digress).
I did finally get my company's permission to release the
code, but there was little point by then. (I also had to
scramble to survive a reorg at that time and didn't have
any time at all for quite a while afterwards.)

If there is interest in my NTFS-specific solution, please
let me know. (Actually, it's not necessarily specific to
NTFS, though it probably is in practice. It definitely
doesn't support FATxx or Win9x.)

gsw


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