Lapo Luchini wrote: > I fail to see how that is a desiderable thing. > Filesystem is UTF-16, Cygwin is now Unicode-aware, but anything that > doesn't fit ANSI is thrown away for the sake of retro-compatibility of > Cygwin-1.5 which was not Unicode-aware?
On a second reading, I guess you meant that *ONLY for LANG=C* and leave the current usage for LANG=xx_XX.UTF-8, is that so? In that case, the "forced ANSI retro-compatibility" would only bit people with a missing (or messed up) environment and that's an ill-defined situation where nobody can really argue if he gets suboptimal results. Also, when used for scripts with no user-interaction being capable to save every filename and read it again the same format is a sure pro. If, OTOH, you're an interactive shell and your user likely wants to "see stuff" well, he better set a LANG env. PS: this would work around the "LANG=C ls" file-not-found issues, but a solution for "LANG=xx_XX.UTF-8 ls" issue would still be neeeded. (same goes for `find $dir -delete`) -- Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/ “Two can keep a secret if one is dead.” (anonymous) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
