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RE: filenames with characters that have the high bit set
- From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth dot Nellis at acs-inc dot com>
- To: <dbyron at dbyron dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:00:23 -0500
- Subject: RE: filenames with characters that have the high bit set
- References: <493F5820D3F64434A76F433604C79D4A@pleaset>
> From: David Byron
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 20:21
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: filenames with characters that have the high bit set
>
> I've read http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.unicode and
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html but I'm still
> stumped.
>
> My cygwin.bat now contains:
>
<snip>
>
> Thanks much.
>
> -DB
I think you've over-analyzed the problem and corrupted your
environment with meta stuff and extra environment variables.
The defaults work just right for me:
$ touch foo$'\xc3\xa9'
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r-----+ 1 knellis knellis 0 2010-03-16 08:55 fooÃ
$ test -f foo$'\xc3\xa9'
$ echo $?
0
$
--Ken Nellis