On Dec 23 20:44, Denis Corbin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First, I have read the FAQ and this mailing archive :)
> 
> Here is the problem I meet:
> 
> In a directory are placed three files using windows 8's explorer:
> - a short Cyrillic filename "абваб.txt"
> - a long Cyrillic filename
> "абвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабвабваб.txt"
> - a long Latin filename
> "ababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababa.txt"
> 
> 
> >From a C program compiled under Cygwin, I can obtain the corresponding
> filename strings using readdir_r()...
> 
> "\320\260\320\261\320\262\320\260\320\261.txt"
> "\320\260\320\261\320\262\320\260\320\261\320\262\320\260\320\261 [snipped]"
> "abababababaababababa [snipped]"
> 
> ... but passing these strings in turn to lstat() or stat() returns 0 as
> expected for all except for the long Cyrillic filename.

NAME_MAX is 255.  On Windows this is the number of UTF-16 chars
unfortunately.  On POSIX systems (as on Cygwin) this is the number of
bytes.  Long UTF-16 strings in cyrillic take twice as much UTF-8 chars
as it has UTF-16 chars, so NAME_MAX in utf-8 cyrillics translates into
a maximum of 127 UTF-16 chars.

If you need access to UTF-16 filenames with more characters, you can
switch to a one-byte charset temporarily, e.g.

  $ LC_ALL=ru_RU your_app

to switch to iso-8859-5 or

  $ LC_ALL=ru_RU.CP1251

to switch to Windows codepage 1251.  See
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html


HTH,
Corinna

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