On Nov 30 15:33, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Andy Koppe wrote: > >2009/11/29 Linda Walsh: > They are actually listed in all CJK character sets (checking i18n > data). Whether this was really used or not, it makes their view as > "presentation forms" weaker. > > >>_I_ use those [wide ASCII chars] in filesnames, > >>and know of no compatibility problems having them > >>treated as 'real' ascii characters under cygwin -- > >>since I am just using them for 'display' purposes > >>in file names like like "Music:the group:title 1/3". > >Sounds like you've found a good solution there already. The wide forms > >show up correctly in Explorer, Cygwin, and via Samba, don't they? > > > >To make them more convenient to use, you could add them to your > >keyboard layout using Microsoft's Keyboard Layout Creator, e.g. with > >AltGr+':' for the wide colon. > Sounds like a good proposal. On the other hand, I can also understand Linda. > Trying to conciliate, what about a $CYGWIN option to map pathname > ":" to filesystem fullwidth "???" etc? > To meet concerns of unambigous filename representation, it could > also be a one-way option, so mapping back filesystem "???" to > itself, and the Interix code to ASCII ":".
Definitely not for 1.7.1, and from my POV this complicates the code unnecessarily in the long run as well. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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