filenames with characters that have the high bit set

[Nellis, Kenneth]

> From: David Byron
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 20:21
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: filenames with characters that have the high bit set
> 
> I've read http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.unicode and
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html but I'm still
> stumped.
> 
> My cygwin.bat now contains:
> 
<snip>
> 
> Thanks much.
> 
> -DB

I think you've over-analyzed the problem and corrupted your
environment with meta stuff and extra environment variables.
The defaults work just right for me:

$ touch foo$'\xc3\xa9'
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r-----+ 1 knellis knellis 0 2010-03-16 08:55 fooé
$ test -f foo$'\xc3\xa9'
$ echo $?
0
$

--Ken Nellis