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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: international chars in user name
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 22:44:03 -0500
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> I was looking at the cygwin code.
> Functions like cygwin_logon_user() makes a call to LogonUserA(). It is
> explicitly calling ascii version.
> Also parsing of gecos field assumes that it is ascii (functions like
> internal_getpwsid() in passwd.cc).
> I wonder if there are other things.

Remember that Cygwin still has to run on Win9x :-(, so that's probably where the
XxxxYyyyA() calls come from.

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Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.



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