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Re: utf-8 and cygwin
> #1 is that that NT/XP limit is 32000 UTF-16 wide characters. Expanded to UTF-8 that makes the longest name 128k so if you really want this to work for 32K character names PATH_MAX is going to have to be 128K.
It doesn't make any sense to use UTF-8 in Cygwin. Nowhere in the Win32
api or the Native API does any function take or output UTF-8, so there
would be a useless conversion before calling *any* system function. The
whole point of this painful conversion is to use the same encoding
throughout in Cygwin as the operating system, namely UCS-2.
I think Corinna might have more to say as she's been doing the bulk of
the work but I believe she's on vacation.
Brian