readshortcut fails on file name

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Wed Jul 19 15:07:00 GMT 2017


Am 19.07.2017 um 00:57 schrieb Brian Inglis:
> On 2017-07-18 14:52, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Am 16.05.2017 um 21:53 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
>>> Am 16.05.2017 um 21:14 schrieb Nellis, Kenneth:
>>>> I have a Windows shortcut with Unicode character U+2013 (EN DASH) in its name.
>>>> readshortcut fails to read it, but if I rename it removing the EN DASH,
>>>> readshortcut reads it correctly.
>>> I have a patched version of readshortcut that fully supports Unicode.
>>> I will provide it in a few days.
>>> Actually, I have it waiting for contribution for a while already, but did not
>>> find time yet to patch mkshortcut as well...
>> I seem to have forgotten to provide this. I had meanwhile reworked mkshortcut
>> for full Unicode support as well.
>> Uploaded now as http://towo.net/cygwin/shortcuts.zip
> Link gets 1&1 404 page.
Sorry; fixed.

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