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Re: [PATCH 2/4] Add I18N-wrappers for low-level IO-routines

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Timur Sufiev <tsufiev@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 28, 2009, 18:01 UTC
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> Hmm. Two questions about this series:
> 
>   1. Patch 3/4 didn't seem to make it to the list. Presumably that is
>      where you actually use these routines in git? Or are they just for
>      mingw?

Yes, it actually haven't made it to the list. Perhaps this was due to patch size: it was approx. 3300 lines long (BTW, what's the message size limit?) So I've rewritten the patch to make it more compact, using mingw approach with macros. Subj prefix for a patch series is 'PATCH I18N filenames v2'.

>   2. I seem to recall that Linus added a filename translation layer for
>      doing much more, like handling unicode normalizations (but I
>      confess I haven't looked closely at that code). Should this be part
>      of that system?

I've heard nothing about that :(. Could you point me directly at Linus' changes?

> -Peff
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Timur Sufiev
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  1. 1/4 Add routines for filenames encoding <local encoding> <-> UTF-8Timur Sufiev, Oct 27, 2009
  2. 2/4 Add I18N-wrappers for low-level IO-routinesTimur Sufiev, Oct 27, 2009
  3. Jeff KingOct 27, 2009
  4. Timur SufievOct 28, 2009
  5. Jeff KingOct 28, 2009
  6. Peter KreftingOct 27, 2009
  7. Timur SufievOct 28, 2009
  8. 4/4 Make mingw-compatibility layer to be aware of I18N-wrappersTimur Sufiev, Oct 27, 2009

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