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Subject: Removing ^X in paths
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It appears that windows now supports the UTF-8 codepage
and generally allows UTF-8 everywhere that ASCII was supported.
I light of this, it seems time to change cygwin so it no longer adds those
control-x (^X)  characters in e.g. path names.


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