UTF-8 Cygwin

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 02:46:56PM +0900, SUZUKI Hisao wrote:
># I should have posted this message to this list from the first.
>
>I made a patch to cygwin1.dll to support UTF-8.
>
>It allows you to use all of characters and file (or path) names
>allowed in Windows, while keeping binary-compatibility with the
>current Cygwin.  It is fairly perfect except for lack of locale
>support etc.  So it may remind you of the good old BeOS.  See:
>
>http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/

Yes, we heard.

The contribution guidelines are here:

http://cygwin.com/contrib.html

We'd appreciate if you could give them a look and use them as the basis
for your contribution.  The first step is that you'll need to fill out
an assignment form.

cgf