utf-8 and cygwin

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:47:24PM -0800, Gregg Tavares wrote:
>I narrowed the problems down to 2 things I think.
>
>#1) no utf-8 support in cygwin
>[snip]
>#2) The filename size limit in cygwin is too short.
>
>I see that someone says they are working on it for a future release but a search also brought up this patch
>
>http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/
>
>which already does that.  I thought maybe whoever is working on future
>utf-8 support might want to look at that.

It should come as no surprise that neither issue is a surprise and
Corinna is doing massive amounts of work to rectify the problem in CVS.

If you want to help you should inspect the work that was done there.
We're not going to be incorporating the utf-8 stuff.

cgf