On May 13 02:29, IWAMURO Motonori wrote: > Hi. > > I propose that the filename encoding in C locale uses UTF-8 instead of > SO/UTF-8. > > There are three reasons: > > 1. for the interoperability between Cygwin and various UNIX-like > systems (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, and so on). > UNIX-like systems treat the filename as 8bit byte array, and many > applications on the systems send or receive filename information > without locale. (mercurial, git, rsync, and so on). > > 2. UTF-8 is the only encoding that can treat multi languages. > > 3. Today, the default encoding of modern UNIX-like systems is UTF-8.
That's an interesting thought. Do you have a patch and, if so, did you try it? Does it, for instance, help for the issue reported in the thread starting at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00245.html? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/