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From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes AT acm DOT org>
Subject:  Re: Unicode in filenames support?
Date:  Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:35:42 -0400
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"Christopher Faylor" <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote in 
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> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:08:30PM -0400, Beman Dawes wrote:
>>I've been in contact with Newlib people working on the problem in, which 
>>is
>>where the problem needs to be solved. They really need encouragement that
>>people do care about wide character support, and that not having it is a
>>black eye for an otherwise excellent and highly appreciated Cygwin effort.
>>IMO of course.
>
> I've been reading the newlib list and they do not need "encouragement".
> Newlib is like any other free software project.  They need someone to do
> the work.  Please do not send "me toos" to the newlib list.  They are
> not required.
>
> If you want something in newlib, then please submit a patch to make it
> happen.  That's how it works.

That was my original intent, but I'm holding off doing anything because I 
got private email indicating others had already done part of the work, 
although stalled at the moment. So I'm hoping that with a bit of 
encouragement they might finish the job.

--Beman Dawes 




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