[Monotone-devel] Re: Is the windows port active?

[Lapo Luchini]

For the records, using Cygwin I can add/remove accented filenames 
correctly, and "mtn status" reports them correctly, while the message of 
"add/remove" does not; "mtn ls unknown" fails completely though.

% export LANG=en_US.CP1252
% touch zzzà.txt
% mtn add zzzà.txt
mtn: adding zzzà .txt to workspace manifest
% mtn st
Current branch: [...]
Changes against parent [...]
  added    zzzà.txt
% mtn rm zzzà.txt
mtn: dropping zzzà .txt from workspace manifest
% mtn ls unknown
mtn: fatal: std::logic_error: 
/home/lapo/packaging/monotone-0.38-1/src/monotone-0.38/paths.cc:411: 
invariant 'I(utf8_validate(utf8(data)) && !has_bad_component_chars(data) 
&& data != "." && data != "..")' violated
mtn: this is almost certainly a bug in monotone.
mtn: please send this error message, the output of 'mtn version --full',
mtn: and a description of what you were doing to address@hidden
mtn: wrote debugging log to /home/lapo/_MTN/debug
mtn: if reporting a bug, please include this file

...the Unicode conversion really lacks in some areas of MTN.

> Things could be improved on Windows by using wide char versions of calls 
> and converting the result from UTF-16 to UTF-8 for monotones internal 
> use. But that would mean dropping pre-NT Windows compatibility.

And how many people does still use Win9x family?
(FWIW Cygwin is about to drop Win95 support in next major release)

    Lapo