UTF-8 Cygwin

SUZUKI Hisao suzuki611@oki.com
Fri Jul 7 04:13:00 GMT 2006


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> I hate to say this but I really don't like doing things this way.  If we
> need to use wide character support then it should just be a wholesale
> replacement, not a bunch of wrappers around existing functions.
> 
> Corinna and I have talked about using the FooW functions for a long time.
> There are some fundamental changes required to incorporate these into
> cygwin but I don't think that wrappers around everything are the way to
> go.
> 
> cgf

I hope you will understand that both approaches (wapper approach and
non-wrapper approach) are _compatible_.

In Cygwin-1.5.20-1 on Windows XP,
fhandler_disk_file::readdir() at winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc
does not use FindNextFileA, one of ANSI WIN32 APIs, anymore.  It use
so-called undocumented APIs which are Unicode-base.  You have
implemented your approach here a little, haven't you?

And the UTF-8 Cygwin still works very well ;-)

Wrapper functions do _nothing_ where wide characters are used.
It is sys_wcstombs that converts Unicode to UTF-8 here.

The cygwin programs can enjoy UTF-8 _now_ with the UTF-8 patch,
and someday in the future when UTF-8 is supported natively,
you can delete wrapper functions which are not used anymore then.

-- SUZUKI Hisao



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