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On Dec  8 00:33, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > 
> > Just so it's clear why I did that, maybe you want to have a look into
> > the brief discussion on the cygwin-developers list:
> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2011-11/msg00000.html
> 
> All good reasons, but you are going to break backward compatibility.
> At least, lyx is going to be affected. It currently works with unicode
> without a glitch, but it will be broken with 1.7.10.

Which raises the question why the Cygwin version of lyx uses
cygwin_conv_path at all.  Does it call Windows functions with the paths?
If so, why?  If not, why are the paths converted to Windows?


Corinna

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