[Unison-hackers] Unicode names on Windows

[Gregg Tavares]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Ralph Lehmann <ralph-lehmann at web.de>
> To: Unison hackers <unison-hackers at lists.seas.upenn.edu>
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 2:53:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Unison-hackers] Unicode names on Windows
> 
> Gregg Tavares schrieb:
> >> From: Benjamin Pierce 
> >> To: Unison hackers 
> >> 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/
> 

I did take a look at that. Unfortunately the filename buffers in cygwin
are too small for typical chinese/japanese/korean filenames. It may 
work for short filenames but for a typical .mp3 filename like 

mp3folder/Band Name/Album Name/Track Name

it will fail

I tried recompiling that version of cygwin with larger filename
buffers but it was beyond the time I had. The maximum filename
size is not defined in one place. It could be that someone more
familar with the code could get that patch to work easily but I
couldn't. If anyone does I'd love to hear about it.