X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <813e5f920706210249o46e59d84y7491458d6d5b7e42@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:49:07 +1000 From: "Hugh McMaster" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: A problem about Cygwin Cc: binluo@w3china.cn In-Reply-To: <4679682C.6030607@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline References: <46617775.2090504@w3china.cn> <4677C92E.9010801@byu.net> <4679682C.6030607@gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id l5L9nMmb007624 Hi Eric, ÄãºÃÂÞ±ó (Lu¨® B¨©n), Yes, it would seem that Cygwin does not fully support the use ofinternational character sets, Chinese, or otherwise. I have triedChinese, and German (both of which I can speak some of), and neithercharacter sets appear. Hugh > Eric Blake wrote:> > I'm removing the screen capture, but the difference was that the group and> > user names showed only "?" while filenames showed actual Chinese> > characters (rather than "?", as they were flattened to in the above> > display). Do those user and group names actually contain Chinese> > characters, or is it just a case of your /etc/passwd and /etc/groups being> > out-of-date so that cygwin really does think they are "????????"? With a> > quick glance at the ls source code, ls doesn't do anything special to> > non-ascii characters in group and user names. So maybe you need to read> > up on the use of mkgroups and mkpasswd.