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From: Eemeli Kantola <ekantola@cc.hut.fi>
Subject: Re: dosemu 1.1.5.7 (was Re: dosemu 1.1.5.6)
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:21:33 +0300
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Bart Oldeman wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Eemeli Kantola wrote:
>=20
>=20
>>If you under win9x or unix create a text file containing intl chars,
>>they appear incorrectly under dos edit, for example. This has somethi=
ng
>>to do with font differences between dos and windows/unix, but is anyw=
ay
>>the "preferred" behavior. However, windows somehow converts chars in
>>file names somehow that they look the same under dos and windows. Dos=
emu
>>seems to know nothing about that: as an example, a file named "clich=E9=
"
>>is shown as "clich<theta>" (where <theta> is a single greek theta) un=
der
>>dosemu.
>=20
>=20
> right so this problem surfaced in 1.1.5.6 since the vfat kernel drive=
r
> translates from codepage xxx (default=3D437) to codepage iso8859-1 an=
d
> 1.1.5.6 (on VFAT) doesn't mangle short filenames.
>=20
> Well it turned out that this easy approach (no mangling at all on
> VFAT) wasn't feasible in all cases and that with the unicode
> infrastructure already there in several places it was not that hard t=
o
> translate filenames from the UNIX to the DOS character set now.
>=20
> In my testings (and Stas' for Cyrillic) it all works so I've put up
> 1.1.5.7 at http://www.dosemu.org/testing to ask for wider testing.

Thanks, that seems to have fixed about every filename problem I had!

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