# I should have posted this message to this list from the first. I made a patch to cygwin1.dll to support UTF-8.
It allows you to use all of characters and file (or path) names allowed in Windows, while keeping binary-compatibility with the current Cygwin. It is fairly perfect except for lack of locale support etc. So it may remind you of the good old BeOS. See: http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/ -- SUZUKI Hisao
