readshortcut fails on file name

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Tue Jul 18 22:11:00 GMT 2017


Am 16.05.2017 um 21:53 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
> Am 16.05.2017 um 21:14 schrieb Nellis, Kenneth:
>> I have a Windows shortcut with Unicode character U+2013 (EN DASH) in 
>> its name.
>> readshortcut fails to read it, but if I rename it removing the EN DASH,
>> readshortcut reads it correctly.
> I have a patched version of readshortcut that fully supports Unicode.
> I will provide it in a few days.
> Actually, I have it waiting for contribution for a while already, but 
> did not find time yet to patch mkshortcut as well...
I seem to have forgotten to provide this. I had meanwhile reworked 
mkshortcut for full Unicode support as well.
Uploaded now as http://towo.net/cygwin/shortcuts.zip
Thomas

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