readshortcut fails on file name

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Thu Jul 20 18:59:00 GMT 2017


Am 19.07.2017 um 08:33 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
> 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.
But forget about it; it's already been released, I was confused.

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