Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca>]

On 2023-04-14 14:17, Gionatan Danti via Cygwin wrote:
> Il 2023-04-14 21:00 Corinna Vinschen ha scritto:
>> There's no (good) solution from inside Cygwin.

> Yeah, I can only imagine how difficult is to be compatible with posix, win32 and 
> the likes.

>> Any chance you can just rename the files?

> I renamed the files, in fact.
> However, it seems that users working with (older?) Office for MAC use U+F020 
> more frequently than I expected, maybe because of that [1]:
> "Microsoft's defunct Services For Macintosh feature used U+F001 through U+F029 
> as replacements for special characters allowed in HFS but forbidden in NTFS, and 
> U+F02A for the Apple logo."
> Any chances to enable a "bypass" for these characters (excluding the one you 
> reserved for compatibility as explained detailed in the "Forbidden characters in 
> filenames")? Maybe hidden behind a configurable option (even disabled by 
> default), so to not interfere with the current behavior?

> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas#Vendor_use

Now if MS SfM and Cygwin had both registered with U/CSUR, they would not be 
fighting over Unicode code points, although it looks like there is a lot of 
competition for the code points! ;^>

Would it make more sense to add custom file name character filters into some 
utility, such as unix2dos/mac2unix, cygpath, or some other, and add (Cyg)win, or 
create such a utility, so those could be added to processes?

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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