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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:55:21 -0700
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)
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On 6/7/05, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:17:02PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
> >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.  :-(
> 
> Joshua, any chance I could get a FAQ entry about this?
> 
> >However, it was NTFS-specific and Cygwin went a different
> >route (which has path length limitations, but I digress).
> 
> And, Joshua could I get a FAQ entry about this, too?  This has got to be
> at least the fifth time that someone has felt compelled to make the
> observation that the current implementation of managed mode has path
> length limitations.  Maybe a managed mode section would be useful in
> general.

Sure, though unfortunately it will be a few days since I'm moving right now.

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