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diff --git a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml index ad1468462..0a9766c6a 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml @@ -368,6 +368,11 @@ filename because the question mark will not translate back to the original Chinese character, but to a simple question mark instead. This in turn results in strange "File not found" messages.</para> +<note><para>In the default "C" locale, Cygwin creates filenames using +the UTF-8 charset. This will always result in some valid filename by +default, but again might impose problems when switching to a non-"C" +or non-"UTF-8" charset.</para></note> + <note><para>To avoid this scenario altogether, always use UTF-8 as the character set.</para></note> |