Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-19 Thread Gionatan Danti via Cygwin
Il 2023-04-19 03:10 L A Walsh ha scritto: I'm a bit confused as to what char you are trying to access/use, as U+F020 is in the Private Use area (PUA) Since it's in the PUA, it seems its meaning could differ by application/OS/User, no? I.e. have no set definition I mean you can use it in Cygwin

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-18 Thread L A Walsh via Cygwin
I'm a bit confused as to what char you are trying to access/use, as U+F020 is in the Private Use area (PUA) Since it's in the PUA, it seems its meaning could differ by application/OS/User, no? I.e. have no set definition I mean you can use it in Cygwin to represent some character not usually

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-18 Thread Gionatan Danti via Cygwin
Il 2023-04-17 15:46 Gionatan Danti via Cygwin ha scritto: First, I use the "dos" mount option to always trigger conversion of space and dot at filename end into F+00xx chars. Now I am able to create such strange-looking file (in Explorer) within cygwin itself. For example, touch "zzs " now

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-17 Thread Gionatan Danti via Cygwin
Il 2023-04-17 11:05 Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: It's actually not the "dos" mount option but specific filesystems which trigger the conversion from U+0020 to U+F020. OK. However, the conversion back is handled in a piece of code which has no information about the underlying filesystem, so

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-17 Thread Andrey Repin via Cygwin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin! > On Apr 17 07:36, Gionatan Danti via Cygwin wrote: >> Il 2023-04-14 23:01 Gionatan Danti via Cygwin ha scritto: >> > Il 2023-04-14 22:25 Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin ha scritto: >> > > We do that. You're just stumbling over tha fact that U+F020 is also >>

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Apr 14 23:10, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > On 2023-04-14 14:17, Gionatan Danti via Cygwin wrote: > > Il 2023-04-14 21:00 Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: > > > There's no (good) solution from inside Cygwin. > > > Yeah, I can only imagine how difficult is to be compatible with posix, > > win32

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Apr 17 07:36, Gionatan Danti via Cygwin wrote: > Il 2023-04-14 23:01 Gionatan Danti via Cygwin ha scritto: > > Il 2023-04-14 22:25 Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin ha scritto: > > > We do that. You're just stumbling over tha fact that U+F020 is also > > > used as outlined in > > >

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-16 Thread Gionatan Danti via Cygwin
Il 2023-04-14 23:01 Gionatan Danti via Cygwin ha scritto: Il 2023-04-14 22:25 Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin ha scritto: We do that. You're just stumbling over tha fact that U+F020 is also used as outlined in https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars and

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-14 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
On 2023-04-14 14:17, Gionatan Danti via Cygwin wrote: Il 2023-04-14 21:00 Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: There's no (good) solution from inside Cygwin. Yeah, I can only imagine how difficult is to be compatible with posix, win32 and the likes. Any chance you can just rename the files? I

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-14 Thread Gionatan Danti via Cygwin
Il 2023-04-14 22:25 Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin ha scritto: We do that. You're just stumbling over tha fact that U+F020 is also used as outlined in https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars and https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-April/253478.html

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-14 Thread Gionatan Danti via Cygwin
Il 2023-04-14 22:40 Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: This is really tricky. A new mount point flag could be used to override this behaviour on a per path basis. One problem is, the unicode -> multibyte conversion when evaluating a symlink is done before it's clear where the symlink target is.

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Apr 14 22:17, Gionatan Danti via Cygwin wrote: > Il 2023-04-14 21:00 Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: > > There's no (good) solution from inside Cygwin. > > [snip] > > Yeah, I can only imagine how difficult is to be compatible with posix, win32 > and the likes. > > > Any chance you can just

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Apr 14 22:21, Gionatan Danti via Cygwin wrote: > Il 2023-04-14 21:54 Brian Inglis ha scritto: > > UCSUR Under-ConScript Unicode Registry and its predecessor ConScript > > Unicode Registry CSUR > > > > https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/ > > > > http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-14 Thread Gionatan Danti via Cygwin
Il 2023-04-14 21:54 Brian Inglis ha scritto: UCSUR Under-ConScript Unicode Registry and its predecessor ConScript Unicode Registry CSUR https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/ http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/ unofficially register Unicode PUA glyphs for academic,

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Apr 14 13:54, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > On 2023-04-14 13:00, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > On Apr 14 19:53, Gionatan Danti via Cygwin wrote: > > > [1] https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00043.html > > > While this patch would have fixed your problem, a later

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-14 Thread Gionatan Danti via Cygwin
Il 2023-04-14 21:00 Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: There's no (good) solution from inside Cygwin. [snip] Yeah, I can only imagine how difficult is to be compatible with posix, win32 and the likes. Any chance you can just rename the files? I renamed the files, in fact. However, it seems

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-14 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
On 2023-04-14 13:00, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Apr 14 19:53, Gionatan Danti via Cygwin wrote: I have an issue with unreadable files with contain utf char U+F020 (which appear as "middle dot with some space after") in their name. stat on such a file results in "no such file or

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Apr 14 19:53, Gionatan Danti via Cygwin wrote: > Dear list, > I have an issue with unreadable files with contain utf char U+F020 (which > appear as "middle dot with some space after") in their name. > > stat on such a file results in "no such file or directory" > > From here [1] it seems that

Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-14 Thread Gionatan Danti via Cygwin
Dear list, I have an issue with unreadable files with contain utf char U+F020 (which appear as "middle dot with some space after") in their name. stat on such a file results in "no such file or directory" From here [1] it seems that a patch was contemplated many years ago, but I don't know