Re: utf-8 and cygwin

2007-11-26 Thread Peter Novak
Hi Mariusz, On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:22:41PM -0800, Mariusz Wodzicki wrote: > Microsoft's command 'dir /x' does that, for example. cygpath can perhaps help you (check man cygpath, or cygpath --help). For example executing: $ cygpath -d /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/ yields: c

Re: utf-8 and cygwin

2007-11-26 Thread Mariusz Wodzicki
Corinna! I would love to help you but I am not competent! What about my other question: how does one find the "short" name of file(s) and folder(s) in cygwin? Microsoft's command 'dir /x' does that, for example. Regards, Mariusz -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simp

Re: utf-8 and cygwin

2007-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 25 02:46, Mariusz Wodzicki wrote: > I would like to reopen the discussion about utf-8 support in cygwin. I'd like to close it again. I'm working on converting Cygwin's path handling to use NT's unicode functions. Given that there's practically no coding help from anybody, this will take m

Re: utf-8 and cygwin

2007-11-25 Thread Tim Freedom
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:03:07 -0500, "Larry Hall" wrote: > > Mariusz Wodzicki wrote: > > > > I would like to reopen the discussion about utf-8 support in cygwin. > > > > SIXTEEN months passed since there were some exchanges about it > > on the cygwin mail list. > > > > The lack of support for

Re: utf-8 and cygwin

2007-11-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Mariusz Wodzicki wrote: I would like to reopen the discussion about utf-8 support in cygwin. SIXTEEN months passed since there were some exchanges about it on the cygwin mail list. The lack of support for filenames with non-Latin1 characters is currently the MOST SEVERE LIMITATION of cygwin in

utf-8 and cygwin

2007-11-25 Thread Mariusz Wodzicki
I would like to reopen the discussion about utf-8 support in cygwin. SIXTEEN months passed since there were some exchanges about it on the cygwin mail list. The lack of support for filenames with non-Latin1 characters is currently the MOST SEVERE LIMITATION of cygwin in my opinion. Due to the in