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Re: cant access to files more than 128 utf-8 symbol long names
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:15:25 +0400
- Subject: Re: cant access to files more than 128 utf-8 symbol long names
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- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> >Sorry if that is frustrating in your current situation, but this
>> >isn't something we can just change at a whim and go ahead. It
>> >would break compatibility with all existing Cygwin executables.
>>
>> Maybe this is something that could be fixed only in the 64-bit version of Cygwin?
> Did you really read my mail? There is no fix. You can handle this
> wrongly one way or the other. If in doubt, I prefer the POSIXly correct
> way.
After off-list discussion, Nikolay partially solved this issue by using
locale-appropriate single-byte encoding in LANG.
In this case,
LANG=ru_RU.CP1251
It is far from a perfect solution, but at least let him access the files
in question.
--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 11.12.2013, <13:12>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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