Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-developers-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-developers/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-developers-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:22:03 +0200 (CEST)
From: Joerg Schilling <schilling AT fokus DOT gmd DOT de>
Message-Id: <200207031122.g63BM3lL015113@burner.fokus.gmd.de>
To: chris AT atomice DOT net, cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: UTF8 support in Cygwin

>From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>

>I am working on a patch which would add UTF8 support to Cygwin.
>i.e. Unicode filenames would be encoded as UTF8 before being returned by,
>e.g., readdir and then converted back to Unicode before being passed to the
>Windows API.
>This would solve Ville Herva's problem where he/she wanted to back up a
>filesystem containing Unicode filenames using Cygwin, but found that the
>Unicode characters were converted to question marks. Also, with an
>appropriate terminal, it is actually possible to view the Unicode characters
>(altough at the moment, it is not possible to input them correctly AFAIK).
>The code is currently guarded by a CYGWIN environment variable flag, 'utf8'.

A long awaited feature!

This would really help for "star" and "mkisofs".

Star needs to archive UTF-8 coded names in the POSIX.1-2001 filenames
and "mkisofs" needs to deal with UNICODE names in Joliet and UDF.

How about using the LC_* locale setup to force UTF-8 coding?

Jörg

 EMail:joerg AT schily DOT isdn DOT cs DOT tu-berlin DOT de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
       js AT cs DOT tu-berlin DOT de		(uni)  If you don't have iso-8859-1
       schilling AT fokus DOT gmd DOT de		(work) chars I am J"org Schilling
 URL:  http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling   ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix