UTF-8 Cygwin

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Fri Jul 7 02:42:00 GMT 2006


On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:41:52AM +0900, SUZUKI Hisao wrote:
>Dave Korn wrote:
>>On 06 July 2006 07:28, SUZUKI Hisao wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Sorry, but I cannot access to CVS server because of firewall.  So the
>>>patch file was made from the cygwin-1.5.20-1-src.
>>
>>  Here it is, blindly applied to current CVS and then regenerated.  I've
>>checked that it still builds and I've installed and started running with 
>>it.
>>I'll report any quirks I find, but I'm not likely to be using the UTF-8
>>features; I'll just look out for any possible breakage of existing stuff.
>
>Thank you!
>
>>Just a couple of comments that I noticed straight away: there's lots of
>>commented out blocks that should be removed if they aren't going to be
>>used, and there's a worrying number of XXX tags that suggest some work
>>remains to be done....?
>
>The tags had meant so in the early stage of development circa 1 March
>indeed.  During testing and debugging, they have been remained and used
>as the marks where I touched the source specifically.  Generally, I
>have replaced every occurrence of ANSI-WIN32 API that operates on a
>file name with macros in winsup.h

I hate to say this but I really don't like doing things this way.  If we
need to use wide character support then it should just be a wholesale
replacement, not a bunch of wrappers around existing functions.

Corinna and I have talked about using the FooW functions for a long time.
There are some fundamental changes required to incorporate these into
cygwin but I don't think that wrappers around everything are the way to
go.

cgf



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