utf-8 and cygwin

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 29 09:46, Brian Dessent wrote:
> 
> > #1 is that that NT/XP limit is 32000 UTF-16  wide characters.  Expanded to UTF-8 that makes the longest name 128k so if you really want this to work for 32K character names PATH_MAX is going to have to be 128K.
> 
> It doesn't make any sense to use UTF-8 in Cygwin.  Nowhere in the Win32
> api or the Native API does any function take or output UTF-8, so there
> would be a useless conversion before calling *any* system function.  The
> whole point of this painful conversion is to use the same encoding
> throughout in Cygwin as the operating system, namely UCS-2.

MSDN claims that Windows uses UTF-16. 

Famous last words alarm:  Most of the time this shouldn't matter, as
long as nobody uses musical notation or characters from dead languages
like lykian or pyu.


Corinna

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