Re: Windows NTFS UCS2 characters

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> > John Love-Jensen wrote:
> >
> > > I can always fallback to use scripts for CMD.EXE to manipulate these
> > > files; but I'd rather be able to do it in my Bash shell scripts.
> > >
> > > Please don't suggest Interix, SFU or MKS alternatives.  Those are fine
> > > products, I'm sure, but I'm not interested.
> >
> > I'm afraid you're probably just out of luck.  If I understand the
> > problem Cygwin currently does not use wide characters internally for
> > filenames/pathnames, nor does it support any locale other than "C"/posix
> > (the latter due to newlib limitations.)
>
> The former is true, the latter is half-true.  Cygwin works with the
> default codepage when the Windows locale settings are set correctly.  You
> cannot *switch* locales programmatically from within Cygwin, but it can
> handle the full 8-bit charset just fine.
>
> > So you're limited to ANSI filenames in the current codepage, I think.
>
> Not sure what ANSI means in this context (if you meant ASCII, or 7-bit,
> then the codepage reference makes no sense).  If the codepage is set
> correctly, Cygwin will read those files.

I forgot to add that to have ls actually show these files, you need to use
the "--show-control-chars" option.  Bash expansion just works, though.
	Igor
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