[Monotone-devel] nice UTF-8 filename support on Cygwin 1.7 [Was: monotone bug]

[Lapo Luchini]

Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Andrey Panchenko wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to add files that have cyrillic letters.
>>
>> "Редактор ландшафта (тех. задание).doc" for example.
> 
> BTW this does work perfectly using the new Cygwin-1.7 package I'm
> preparing! (compiles OOTB, no patch needed; tell me if you'd like a
> pre-compiled package)
> 
> % mtn add *.txt
> mtn: aggiungo ‘p.txt’ al manifesto dello spazio di lavoro
> mtn: aggiungo ‘però costa ben 3€ per 私.txt’ al manifesto dello spazio
> di lavoro
> % mtn ci
> % mtn co tmp2
> % cd tmp2
> % ll
> totale 2
> drwxr-xr-x  1 lapo None  0 16 Apr 10:34 .
> drwx------+ 1 lapo None  0 16 Apr 10:34 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  1 lapo None  0 16 Apr 10:34 _MTN
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 lapo None 37 16 Apr 10:34 p.txt
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 lapo None 37 16 Apr 10:34 però costa ben 3€ per 私.txt
> 
> (this example doesn't show it, but it *also* works using recursive-add,
> not only with filenames specified on the command line)

BTW: this using upcoming Cygwin-1.7 <http://cygwin.com/#beta-test> with
the following environment:

% echo $CYGWIN
codepage:utf8
% echo $LANG
it_IT.UTF-8

Monotone compiled using cygport from the Cygwin-1.5 package.
Will be available shortly as monotone-0.42-2 on mirrors ;-)

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