[Unison-hackers] Unicode names on Windows

[Gregg Tavares]

> From: Benjamin Pierce <bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu>
> To: Unison hackers <unison-hackers at lists.seas.upenn.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 8:48:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [Unison-hackers] Unicode names on Windows
> 
> > I know that this discussion about Unicode characters in file name  
> > is an old one, but I can't figure the problem is still alive ...
> > So please, just tell me: Am I wrong with my usage of Unison  
> > (2.27.57) on my computers here ? (France / China, Ubuntu / Windows  
> > XP, and of course files Chinese characters in files ...)
No, unison does not work with unicode file names. It's not unison's fault, 
it's that it only runs on Windows, AFAIK, through the unix emulation library,
cygwin, and cygwin does not yet support unicode.
The cygwin team claims to be working on it. I'm not sure they'll get there anytime soon
though. When and if they do release cygwin with unicode support all 
program running using cygwin will need to be recompiled but should otherwise
work including unison.