Re: UTF-8 Cygwin

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:24:29PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
>SUZUKI Hisao wrote:
>>I made a patch to cygwin1.dll to support UTF-8.
>>
>>It allows you to use all of characters and file (or path) names
>>allowed in Windows, while keeping binary-compatibility with the
>>current Cygwin.  It is fairly perfect except for lack of locale
>>support etc.  So it may remind you of the good old BeOS.  See:
>>
>>http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/
>>  
>(and for bottom readers...)
>
>When will we see this in the main-stream cygwin?
>Soon? :-)

You can answer your own question.

Look here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/ and see if you notice
any patch submissions.

cgf

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