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From: Eemeli Kantola <ekantola@welho.com>
Subject: Re: dosemu 1.1.5.6
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 21:15:32 +0300
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Bart Oldeman wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I've put up a dosemu 1.1.5.6 for testing to fix some (but not all) of=
 the
> problems with 1.1.5.5.
[...]
> * lots of LFN fixes

This new patch spawned an evil problem regarding LFN and international=20
characters: if I have a file/dir with a long name with intl chars in it=
,=20
I can't access that (ie. File not found) anymore, even though it is see=
n=20
in dir listing. The worst thing is that this is also the case with LFN=20
support disabled. I tested with 1.1.5.5 too, and it doesn't have that b=
ug.


Other than that, there seem to be several problems with file names=20
containing international chars, which make them practically unusable. I=
=20
tested both 1.1.5.5 and 1.1.5.6 with LFN and intl chars under dos 7.10=20
command.com and 4dos 6.22. Nobody seems to have reported bugs on this,=20
so here are some:

- I can't create files with intl chars in the name.

- Intl chars show up in names incorrectly.

If you under win9x or unix create a text file containing intl chars,=20
they appear incorrectly under dos edit, for example. This has something=
=20
to do with font differences between dos and windows/unix, but is anyway=
=20
the "preferred" behavior. However, windows somehow converts chars in=20
file names somehow that they look the same under dos and windows. Dosem=
u=20
seems to know nothing about that: as an example, a file named "clich=E9=
"=20
is shown as "clich<theta>" (where <theta> is a single greek theta) unde=
r=20
dosemu.

Without LFN, dosemu just leaves out the international chars and mangles=
=20
the name ("clich~bc"), which is fine as long as the files are=20
accessible. I was able to live with these things in 1.1.5.5, but not=20
1.1.5.6.


-Eemeli

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