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Re: Fw: File name too long problem -- maybe fix coming?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:33:16 +0100
- Subject: Re: Fw: File name too long problem -- maybe fix coming?
- References: <995063.76606.qm@web45415.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Jan 9 16:55, Gregg Tavares wrote:
> > From: Corinna Vinschen <XXXXXXXXXXXXXX@XXXXXX.XXX>
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR
> > Also, when you use CYGWIN=codepage:oem,
> > you can use UTF-8 by changing the console codepage, isn't it? That's
> > why I didn't add extra UTF-8 handling so far.
>
> no, unfortunately that will not set cygwin to use UTF-8 for filenames.
Looking into MSDN again, I see that you're right. We don't use the
current console codepage for the char conversion, but the system codepage.
Corinna
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