[Q] Use of UTF-8 in cygwin bash shell scripts

[Arifi Koseoglu]

Hello everyone.

I have a question regarding the use of UTF-8 in a cygwin-bash shell script
under windows XP and 2000 (does the behavior differ between 2000 and XP ?).

I have a bash script automatically generated with a Perl program, which is
supposed to copy files from one disk to another and at the same time replace
all international characters in the filename and path with english
counterparts (for example c with cedilla becomes c).

The lines in the shell script are all of the form:

cp "source path with international chars in it" "target with no
international chars"

The shell script is generated/saved in UTF-8 encoding. (since it has to
properly contain the international chars). By the way, with international I
mean the additional characters in the Turkish alphabet - but the same
question should apply to all non-english alphabets.

Now, I cannot get the script to work. I can 'ls' the files using

$ ls "source path with international chars in it"

the listing displays the Turkish characters properly, however whenever I go
ahead to execute the script, bash complains that "source path with
international chars in it" cannot be found.

What am I missing? Does bash not support scripts encoded in UTF-8? Should I
use another Unicode encoding (and how?) Or shoud I trash this method and try
something else (what?). There are thousands of files to be renamed.

I will appreciate any pointers deeply. Many thanks in advance.
Best,
Arifi


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