[Unison-hackers] Unicode names on Windows

Ralph Lehmann ralph-lehmann at web.de
Mon Jun 16 17:53:09 EDT 2008


Gregg Tavares schrieb:
>> 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.

Please take a look at this site:
http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/

HTH && HAND

Ralph



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