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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:06:31PM +0200, Lukas Haase wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is there a chance to get Unicode with cygwin to work?
>
>Nowadays Unicode support is a fundamental component in modern software; 
>All state-of-the art operating systems support Unicode. I do not 
>understand why cygwin lacks this support.
>
>Unfortunately also this solution seems to be dead:
>http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/
>
>Is there a reason why this solution is not implemented in the official 
>cygwin?

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-12/msg00027.html

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