On Apr 11 14:26, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Corinna Vinschen schrieb: >> On Apr 3 13:10, Brian Dessent wrote: >>> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >>> >>>> So once Cygwin learns how to speak UTF-8, I will finally be able to >>>> backup all Windows files... :) >>> Set CYGWIN=codepage:utf8 to enable UTF-8 support. >> ...and set LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8, otherwise multibyte/wide char aware >> application don't convert UTF-8 strings correctly from multibyte to >> wide char and vice versa. > > Although it helped greatly, I'm still unable to open some files with Cygwin > apps.
One reason could be that you're accessing a remote samba share which has filenames with characters which are invalid utf-8 chars. In this case there's nothing Cygwin can do. You will have to fix that on the server side. > Windows tools have no problems accessing them. > > Some Windows tools say for example "this directory contains file names from > a different code page" (i.e., Total Commander will say this when entering a > directory which contains such a file). > > > Is there a setting which will enable Cygwin apps to open all files, > irrespective of their name encoding? utf-8 is supposed to be able to convert all wide chars to a multibyte sequence. If it's *not* the above server-side problem, we would need a simple, self-contained, reproducible testcase, preferrably in plain C. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/