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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 11:10:48 +0200
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Subject: Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020
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From: Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Apr 14 23:10, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2023-04-14 14:17, Gionatan Danti via Cygwin wrote:
> > Il 2023-04-14 21:00 Corinna Vinschen ha scritto:
> > > There's no (good) solution from inside Cygwin.
> 
> > Yeah, I can only imagine how difficult is to be compatible with posix,
> > win32 and the likes.
> 
> > > Any chance you can just rename the files?
> 
> > I renamed the files, in fact.
> > However, it seems that users working with (older?) Office for MAC use
> > U+F020 more frequently than I expected, maybe because of that [1]:
> > "Microsoft's defunct Services For Macintosh feature used U+F001 through
> > U+F029 as replacements for special characters allowed in HFS but
> > forbidden in NTFS, and U+F02A for the Apple logo."
> > Any chances to enable a "bypass" for these characters (excluding the one
> > you reserved for compatibility as explained detailed in the "Forbidden
> > characters in filenames")? Maybe hidden behind a configurable option
> > (even disabled by default), so to not interfere with the current
> > behavior?
> 
> > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas#Vendor_use
> 
> Now if MS SfM and Cygwin had both registered with U/CSUR, they would not be
> fighting over Unicode code points, although it looks like there is a lot of
> competition for the code points! ;^>
> 
> Would it make more sense to add custom file name character filters into some
> utility, such as unix2dos/mac2unix, cygpath, or some other, and add
> (Cyg)win, or create such a utility, so those could be added to processes?

Adding this to some utility would make more sense than adding another
complication into the Cygwin codebase to support really old stuff.


Corinna

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