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Re: status of utf-8 patch


Matt Seitz wrote:
"Brian Dessent" <brian@dessent.net> wrote in message 46921D75.29CE8798@dessent.net">news:46921D75.29CE8798@dessent.net...
Ariel Burbaickij wrote:

question: what is the status of utf-8 patch fo cygwin? Is it
You can find all the details in the mailing list archives.
<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2006-q3/msg00014.html>

endorsed/supported?
It was submitted and rejected on technical grounds, which means sadly
it's not supported here.

The explanation I saw for the rejection was "...it should just be a wholesale replacement, not a bunch of wrappers around existing functions."


It's now a year later. Is there an expectation that the "wholesale replacement" or another solution is coming soon? What would be the harm in adopting the current solution for now? Is this a case of "the perfect is the enemy of the good"?


No.  It's more like the "the limited hack is the enemy of future progress".
It should be _a_little_ easier to implement something maintainable with
1.7 code (in CVS), since Win9x support is no longer a requirement.

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