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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:20:49 -0500
To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Character sets in win32 and cygwin
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In-Reply-To: <200003071433.PAA12299@burner.fokus.gmd.de>; from schilling@fokus.gmd.de on Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 03:33:25PM +0100

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 03:33:25PM +0100, schilling AT fokus DOT gmd DOT de wrote:
>I have a problem with mkisofs running on win32 using cygwin.
>If I run mkisofs to create a ISO-9660 CD with Joliet extensions,
>I get no problems (ISO-8859-1 characters are converted into UNICODE)
>If I run mkisofs on cygwin, I get all umlauts converted into '_'.
>
>It seems that all characters in filenames, all keystrokes are vailable
>or get converted into the DOS charater set. 
>
>All outout  is assumed to be DOS characters.
>
>Is this the expected behaviour?
>
>I thought that win32 should be a UNICODE based OS.

It would probably be best for you to debug whatever cygwin DLL calls
that mkisofs is using and report on problems there.  Possibly this is a
problem with the startup code in dcrt0.cc which calls SetFileApisToOEM ().

cgf