Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-21 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 6/7/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've been off of the developer list for a while now, and now the archives are subscriber only. :-( Joshua, any chance I could get a FAQ entry about this? I've updated What Cygwin mailing lists can I join? with a better description. Old language was If

Re: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-13 Thread Beman Dawes
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:08:30PM -0400, Beman Dawes wrote: I've been in contact with Newlib people working on the problem in, which is where the problem needs to be solved. They really need encouragement that people

RE: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-10 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
I wrote: [...] If a disclaimer is all that you want, I'm sure you/I can get it. In fact, as long as they know about the uncopyrighted code and don't do anything about it, they've given up rights to it. Christopher Faylor wrote: And you prove that they don't know anything about it by...?

Re: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-10 Thread Beman Dawes
Jaeho Shin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm having problem with accessing files that have Unicode in their filenames. ... The Boost Filesystem library (www.boost.org/libs/filesystem) release version does not currently support Unicode or other wide-character

Re: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:08:30PM -0400, Beman Dawes wrote: I've been in contact with Newlib people working on the problem in, which is where the problem needs to be solved. They really need encouragement that people do care about wide character support, and that not having it is a black eye

Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 8 18:20, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: (I don't necessarily expect that there will be any interest in my solution, but I thought that I should mention it just in case. As I said, there are other ways to deal with this without imposing path length limitations, and I don't even know

RE: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-09 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Of course we would be glad to have more people working on the DLL (and sign the copyright assignment, sigh), Yes, the assignment was/is a hurdle for me. It turns out to be much easier to release something into the public domain (at least at my company), thus my approach. I had actually made

Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:28:28PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Of course we would be glad to have more people working on the DLL (and sign the copyright assignment, sigh), Yes, the assignment was/is a hurdle for me. It turns out to be much easier to release something into the public

Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:28:28PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Of course we would be glad to have more people working on the DLL (and sign the copyright assignment, sigh), Yes, the assignment was/is a hurdle for me. It turns out to

RE: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-09 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: But releasing something to the public domain doesn't help Cygwin. [...] The problem is that you still have to verify that the sources are truly public domain and how do you do that without getting a disclaimer from a person's employer? [...] I truly hate all of this

Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 05:24:57PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: But releasing something to the public domain doesn't help Cygwin. [...] The problem is that you still have to verify that the sources are truly public domain and how do you do that without

Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-09 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 6/7/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:17:02PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Not that I know of. We're discussing to convert Cygwin's path handling to use Unicode for a while now, but it will take time. Don't expect this any time

Re: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Not that I know of. We're discussing to convert Cygwin's path handling to use Unicode for a while now, but it will take time. Don't expect this any time soon. I've been off of the developer list for a while now, and now the

Re: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-08 Thread Chris January
Jaeho Shin wrote: I'm having problem with accessing files that have Unicode in their filenames. 1. I use Windows XP Korean version (so the codepage must be 949?). 2. I use iTunes to listen to my music. 3. Files in iTunes Library have filenames in the following format:

Re: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-08 Thread Carlo Florendo
Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Not that I know of. We're discussing to convert Cygwin's path handling to use Unicode for a while now, but it will take time. Don't expect this any time soon. I've been off of the developer

RE: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-08 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
I wrote: However, it was NTFS-specific and Cygwin went a different route (which has path length limitations, but I digress). Christopher Faylor wrote: And, Joshua could I get a FAQ entry about this, too? This has got to be at least the fifth time that someone has felt compelled to make the

Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-07 Thread Jaeho Shin
I'm having problem with accessing files that have Unicode in their filenames. 1. I use Windows XP Korean version (so the codepage must be 949?). 2. I use iTunes to listen to my music. 3. Files in iTunes Library have filenames in the following format: {Artist}/{Album}/{Track#} {Title}.mp3

Re: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 7 16:08, Jaeho Shin wrote: I'm having problem with accessing files that have Unicode in their filenames. [...] Since I really want to use rsync, I hope Cygwin to be able to access Unicode filenames. It would be great if I could mount a filesystem with a charset or encoding

RE: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-07 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Not that I know of. We're discussing to convert Cygwin's path handling to use Unicode for a while now, but it will take time. Don't expect this any time soon. I've been off of the developer list for a while now, and now the archives are subscriber only. :-( How are

Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:17:02PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Not that I know of. We're discussing to convert Cygwin's path handling to use Unicode for a while now, but it will take time. Don't expect this any time soon. I've been off of the developer list