using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?
Tomasz Chmielewski
mangoo@wpkg.org
Mon Apr 14 16:31:00 GMT 2008
Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
(...)
>> So that character is "f021".
>
> I should have thought about that from the beginning. Well, there's no
> workaround and there will be no patch for this. The problem is that
> this character value is within the 0xf000-0xf0ff range. This range is
> part of the UNICODE block 95, "Private Use Area". There is by
> definition no valid UNICODE character assigned within this area and
> Cygwin reserves the right to use this 0xf000-0xf0ff for its own
> purposes. Besides, I have a hard time to imagine how a user could
> create a filename with this value except wantonly.
>
> The range from 0xf000-0xf0ff is used by Cygwin 1.7.0 to map special
> characters which are disallowed in DOS filenames. You can use every
> other UNICODE character in Cygwin, except for these values.
I see.
Thanks a lot for your support.
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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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