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Re: Please support CP932. (I have problem using subversion with SJIS)


On Jan 24 10:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 23 22:31, Andy Koppe wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen:
> > > I applied a patch which handles the characters 0x5c and 0cfe differently
> > > if the charset is set to "SJIS"
> > 
> > Something's going seriously wrong with this, and I'd suspect it's to
> > do with turning backslashes into yen symbols.
> 
> Right.  It occured to me tonight that this will not work from a
> filesystem point-of-view.  The people who decided to overload backslash
> and tilde in the ASCII range with different symbols in SJIS still need
> some serious knock on their heads.  No wonder the Microsoft guys kept
> the binary values of characters intact, especially due to the backslash
> problem.
> 
> > Not sure what could be done about it. Remove SJIS support in favour of CP932?
> 
> In theory, we could be able to keep SJIS support in.  The
> Cygwin-internal function converting multibyte strings to Unicode
> filenames would have to use CP932.  Only on the application level the
> conversion would use SJIS.
> 
> There's no system API which takes wchar_t strings, so all strings are
> exchanged between application and system using multibyte strings.  Since
> the multibytes strings are the same, that should give a round-trip which
> still works for Win32 filenames:
> 
> Input string:  "\x5e\xfe"
> 
> Application:     mbstowcs ("\x5e\xfe")      ==> L"\x00a5\x203e"
>                  wcstombs (L"\x00a5\x203e") ==> "x5e\xfe"
> 
> Cygwin       sys_mbstowcs ("\x5e\xfe")      ==> L"\x005e\x007e"
>              sys_wcstombs (L"\x005e\x007e") ==> "x5e\xfe"

...and, if we implement it that way, do we really still need support
for a "CP932" charset?

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

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