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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:11:04 -0500
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On 01/12/2010 11:44 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 11 14:14, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> On 01/11/2010 05:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> Is my description under using-cygwinenv.html unclear?  I only compared
>>> the old and the new format.  The new format using UTF-16 is used by both
>>> styles of symlinks, the SYSTEM and the .lnk style.
>>
>> OK, I didn't get that from my reading of the description.  I'd recommend
>> adding that path names of either style now use UTF-16, just to be clear.
>> I doubt this is a critical issue of course but it's worthwhile to make this
>> distinction to avoid confusion.
>
> I tried to make it clearer.  Is that better?
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html

Perfect. :-)

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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