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Re: generating /etc/passwd and /etc/group for domians with users with cyrillic names
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:58:27AM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-patches@cygwin.com> said:
>> Why is that needed? What is the problem with the original functions?
>
>The `wcstombs' included in newlib simply strips the higher byte
>of Unicode. It can't translate Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish, and so on
>from Unicode to their ANSI codepages. WideCharToMultiByte can do
>these translations well.
Would it make sense to augment newlib to do the right thing, then?
cgf