Cygwin programs doesn't support non-ASCII filenames

Sat May 9 03:43:00 GMT 2009

(My system locale is zh_CN)
1, test path
 >>> set LANG=& cygpath -am .
 C:/Profiles/Shecti/æ¡Œé¢
 >>> set LANG=zh_CN.GBK& cygpath -am .
 C:/Profiles/Shecti/æ¡Œé¢
 >>> set LANG=C& cygpath -am .
 C:/Profiles/Shecti/Ã—Ã€ÃƒÃ¦
2, the `test' utility
 >>> set LANG=& bash -c "D=$(cygpath -am .); if [ -d $D ]; then echo 
ok $D; else echo fail $D; fi"
 fail C:/Profiles/Shecti/æ¡Œé¢
 >>> set LANG=zh_CN.GB2312& bash -c "D=$(cygpath -am .); if [ -d $D 
]; then echo ok $D; else echo fail $D; fi"
 fail C:/Profiles/Shecti/æ¡Œé¢
 >>> set LANG=zh_CN.GBK& bash -c "D=$(cygpath -am .); if [ -d $D ]; 
then echo ok $D; else echo fail $D; fi"
 ok C:/Profiles/Shecti/æ¡Œé¢
 >>> set LANG=C& bash -c "D=$(cygpath -am .); if [ -d $D ]; then 
echo ok $D;else echo fail $D; fi"
 fail C:/Profiles/Shecti/Ã—Ã€ÃƒÃ¦
3, the `cp' utility
 >>> set LANG=& bash -c "F=$(cygpath -am .)/a.zip; if cp -f $F xyz; 
then echo ok $D; else echo fail $D; fi"
 cp: cannot stat `C:/Profiles/Shecti/æ¡Œé¢/a.zip': No such file or 
directory
 fail
 >>> set LANG=zh_CN.GB2312& bash -c "F=$(cygpath -am .)/a.zip; if cp 
-f $F xyz; then echo ok $D; else echo fail $D; fi"
 cp: cannot stat `C:/Profiles/Shecti/æ¡Œé¢/a.zip': No such file or 
directory
 fail
 >>> set LANG=zh_CN.GBK& bash -c "F=$(cygpath -am .)/a.zip; if cp -f 
$F xyz; then echo ok $D; else echo fail $D; fi"
 ok
 >>> set LANG=C& bash -c "F=$(cygpath -am .)/a.zip; if cp -f $F xyz; 
then echo ok $D; else echo fail $D; fi"
 cp: cannot stat `C:/Profiles/Shecti/Ã—Ã€ÃƒÃ¦/a.zip': No such file or 
directory
 fail
4, the `d' utility
 >>> set LANG=& bash -c "D=$(cygpath -am .); if d $D; then echo ok 
$D; else echo fail $D; fi"
 /mnt/c/Profiles/Shecti/â–’Ã¦Â¡ÂŒâ–’Ã©ÂÂ¢/C:/Profiles/Shecti/æ¡Œé¢ doesn't exist!
 fail C:/Profiles/Shecti/æ¡Œé¢
 >>> set LANG=zh_CN.GB2312& bash -c "D=$(cygpath -am .); if d $D; 
then echo ok $D; else echo fail $D; fi"
 /mnt/c/Profiles/Shecti/â–’Ã¦Â¡ÂŒâ–’Ã©ÂÂ¢/C:/Profiles/Shecti/æ¡Œé¢ doesn't exist!
 fail C:/Profiles/Shecti/æ¡Œé¢
 >>> set LANG=zh_CN.GBK& bash -c "D=$(cygpath -am .); if d $D; then 
echo ok $D; else echo fail $D; fi"
 /mnt/c/Profiles/Shecti/â–’Ã¦Â¡ÂŒâ–’Ã©ÂÂ¢/C:/Profiles/Shecti/æ¡Œé¢ doesn't exist!
 fail C:/Profiles/Shecti/æ¡Œé¢
 >>> set LANG=C& bash -c "D=$(cygpath -am .); if d $D; then echo ok 
$D; elseecho fail $D; fi"
 /mnt/c/Profiles/Shecti/â–’Ã¦Â¡ÂŒâ–’Ã©ÂÂ¢/C:/Profiles/Shecti/Ã—Ã€ÃƒÃ¦ doesn't exist!
 fail C:/Profiles/Shecti/Ã—Ã€ÃƒÃ¦
Problems:
(1)
 Executables `test', `cp' (and rm, cat, stat, find, etc. seems like 
all of binutils) supports locale settings,
 while `d' (and gcc, zip, unzip, gzip, gunzip, jar, vi, etc. not of 
binutils) are not.
(2)
 Even programs of binutils may not support locale settings correctly,
 The GB2312 charset is a subset of GBK charset, and the characters ` 
æ¡Œé¢' is included in GB2312 charset. So in this example, GB2312 SHOULD WORK.
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