[ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 12 23:07, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > 
> > Would it be ok if it works the old way (WIN_A uses the Cygwin codeset)
> > for applications built under 1.7.9 and earlier, and the new way (WIN_A
> > uses Win32 ANSI/OEM codepage) for applications built under 1.7.10 and
> > later?  That means the current lyx continues to work and you can patch
> > lyx upstream accordingly to follow the new behaviour.
> 
> This would certainly preserve backward compatibility, so it is Ok.
> However, may I suggest to add two other enums, namely, CCP_WIN_TO_POSIX
> and CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN, that preserve encoding?
> This is also useful, as not always one has to convert to/from Windows
> style paths for calling native APIs.

Never mind.  I reverted the change so the WIN_A conversion will stick
to the Cygwin codeset.


Corinna

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