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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Dec  7 18:00, Bengt Larsson wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> 
>> >- cygwin_conv_path and cygwin_conv_path_list: In CCP_WIN_A_TO_POSIX and
>> >  CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_A conversions, use the current Windows ANSI or OEM
>> >  charset, depending on the return value of AreFileApisANSI.  Up to Cygwin
>> >  1.7.9, both conversions used the current Cygwin charset for the conversion.
>> 
>> Is that the right thing to do? I have LANG=C.UTF-8. If I pass a
>> Windows-style filename on the command line, it's passed as UTF-8. How do
>> I then convert that to Unix-style, UTF-8?
>
>First of all, don't do that.  Use POSIX paths.
>
>Second, it's not passed as UTF-8 if the called application is a
>non-Cygwin application.  In fact, Cygwin calls CreateProcessW, so all
>strings are converted to UTF-16 (aka UNICODE) when starting a non-Cygwin
>child process.
>
>Third, as for Cygwin apps, don't use WIN_A, use WIN_W instead, because
>that's encoding agnostic:

OK, thanks.

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