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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:43:55 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: UTF8 support in cygwin
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On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:19:31PM +0100, Chris January wrote:
>> How about this idea?
>This sounds like a good idea - I will have a go at implementing this.

FWIW, I think this is a good idea.  Internationalization of cygwin is
long overdue.

I'm wondering if we need to augment newlib's existing but meager wide
character support, though?  Or isn't that necessary?

cgf