Re: i18n: readdir API implementation

[Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at gmail dot com>]

On 5/7/05, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> Primarily, I am interested in the rationale behind using the ASCII
> variants of the w32api system calls, FindFirstFileA and FindNextFileA,
> as opposed to using the wide-character variants FindFirstFileW and
> FindNextFileW.


I believe the reason is simply that the Cygwin implementation predates good
Unicode support in Windows and so it wasn't an option in the first place.
I'm sure that patches would be carefully considered, though I vaguely 
remember someone (Japanese?) having a patched Unicode-supporting 
Cygwin DLL that did not fail gracefully on Win9x. It ought to fail gracefully.

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