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Re: [RFC PATCH] Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.

From
Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 4, 2009, 14:18 UTC
Message-ID
<37fcd2780903040618q24457d96m7a9b181a3e202c7d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:51:15AM +0100, Peter Krefting wrote:
> The problem with changing wchar_t is that_
> it was defined to use 16-bit values at a time where Unicode was defined_
> to use 16-bit code points (but they soon figured out that was not_
> enough).
I do realize that is a problem, and unfortunately there is no easy and
quick fix to it. But you brought Windows as an example of good Unicode
support... Well, to my mind, it is not, at least, not for C programs.
You have two serious problems here:
1. wchar_t is too small to hold all Unicode characters as it is required
   by C standard.
2. UTF-8 support is broken in C runtime library.

In fact, if UTF-8 were supported by C runtime, we would not have this thread in the first place... Now, it is possible to wrap all C functions used by Git to make them work with UTF-8, but it is a lot of work...

Dmitry
Previous: Peter Krefting
Message 26 of 26 in “Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.”
  1. Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.Peter Krefting, Mar 2, 2009
  2. Johannes SixtMar 2, 2009
  3. Peter KreftingMar 2, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinMar 2, 2009
  5. Peter KreftingMar 2, 2009
  6. Johannes SixtMar 2, 2009
  7. Peter KreftingMar 2, 2009
  8. Robin RosenbergMar 2, 2009
  9. Peter KreftingMar 2, 2009
  10. Robin RosenbergMar 2, 2009
  11. Peter KreftingMar 3, 2009
  12. Dmitry PotapovMar 3, 2009
  13. Peter KreftingMar 3, 2009
  14. Robin RosenbergMar 7, 2009
  15. Peter KreftingMar 2, 2009
  16. Thomas RastMar 2, 2009
  17. Peter KreftingMar 2, 2009
  18. Lars NoschinskiMar 3, 2009
  19. Peter KreftingMar 3, 2009
  20. Lars NoschinskiMar 3, 2009
  21. Robin RosenbergMar 3, 2009
  22. Dmitry PotapovMar 3, 2009
  23. Peter KreftingMar 3, 2009
  24. Dmitry PotapovMar 3, 2009
  25. Peter KreftingMar 4, 2009
  26. Dmitry PotapovMar 4, 2009

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