Symbolic links not backwards-compatible

[Thomas Wolff]

I seem to remember some improvements about soft links were announced 
recently, but I only noticed right now that those are not 
backwards-compatible.
A link created on cygwin 1.7 and read on cygwin 1.5 will be reproduced 
as a sequence of UTF-16 bytes, starting with a BOM, and usually 
terminating soon because every second byte is zero, so it doesn't work.

If that was intended or accepted as a trade-off, just forget my mail; I 
just though it should be known.

Thomas