A problem about Cygwin

[Hugh McMaster]

Hi Eric, 你好罗斌 (Luó Bīn),

Yes, it would seem that Cygwin does not fully support the use of
international character sets, Chinese, or otherwise.  I have tried
Chinese, and German (both of which I can speak some of), and neither
character sets appear.

Hugh

> Eric Blake wrote:
> > I'm removing the screen capture, but the difference was that the group and
> > user names showed only "?" while filenames showed actual Chinese
> > characters (rather than "?", as they were flattened to in the above
> > display).  Do those user and group names actually contain Chinese
> > characters, or is it just a case of your /etc/passwd and /etc/groups being
> > out-of-date so that cygwin really does think they are "????????"?  With a
> > quick glance at the ls source code, ls doesn't do anything special to
> > non-ascii characters in group and user names.  So maybe you need to read
> > up on the use of mkgroups and mkpasswd.