On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 04:40:59PM -0300, Paulo Castro wrote: >I would like to ask that the decision to reject Mr Suzuki Hisao's patch >to include UTF-8 file name support in Cygwin was reconsidered. I've >read the discussion between Mr Suzuki Hisao and Mr Christopher Faylor >(cygwin-patches mail list, thread "UTF-8 Cygwin", 26 Jun - 06 Jul >2006), and Christopher's arguments didn't convince me: as it appears, >it was mostly an issue with function wrappers not being a solution as >clean and elegant as the ideal. The alternative would be a major >redesign in Cygwin that would require considerable additional efforts >which no one seems to be willing to undertake at this time.
Sorry but we don't accept flawed patches just because they add desired functionality. I don't think the cygwin project is alone in adopting this type of rule. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
