Re: With bad UTF-8, cygwin can create files it can't read

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar 25 14:34, Kyzer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've found that if you use cygwin to create a file with badly-encoded
> UTF-8, readdir() gives out an entry with a name that cygwin won't
> subsequently accept.
> 
> * create a file using filename with hex bytes F4 8F BF BF
> * readdir() reports the filename as hex bytes E2 8E B3 ED BF BF
> * attempting to open or unlink the filename E2 8E B3 ED BF BF fails
> * attempting to open or unlink the filename F4 8F BF BF succeeds

Thanks for the testcase.  I'll have a look later this week (I hope).


Corinna

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