Re: Windows NTFS UCS2 characters

2006-12-02 Thread Linda Walsh
Igor Peshansky wrote: The former is true, the latter is half-true. Cygwin works with the default codepage when the Windows locale settings are set correctly. You cannot *switch* locales programmatically from within Cygwin, but it can handle the full 8-bit charset just fine. Not sure what ANSI m

Re: Windows NTFS UCS2 characters

2006-12-01 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > John Love-Jensen wrote: > > > > > I can always fallback to use scripts for CMD.EXE to manipulate these > > > files; but I'd rather be able to do it in my Bash shell scripts. > > > > > > Please don't sugges

Re: Windows NTFS UCS2 characters

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Peshansky wrote: > > So you're limited to ANSI filenames in the current codepage, I think. > > Not sure what ANSI means in this context (if you meant ASCII, or 7-bit, > then the codepage reference makes no sense). If the codepage is set > correctly, Cygwin will read those files. I meant AN

Re: Windows NTFS UCS2 characters

2006-11-30 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: > John Love-Jensen wrote: > > > I can always fallback to use scripts for CMD.EXE to manipulate these > > files; but I'd rather be able to do it in my Bash shell scripts. > > > > Please don't suggest Interix, SFU or MKS alternatives. Those are fine > > pro

Re: Windows NTFS UCS2 characters

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Dessent
John Love-Jensen wrote: > I can always fallback to use scripts for CMD.EXE to manipulate these files; > but I'd rather be able to do it in my Bash shell scripts. > > Please don't suggest Interix, SFU or MKS alternatives. Those are fine > products, I'm sure, but I'm not interested. I'm afraid yo