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diff --git a/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml b/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml index 220cf1acb..453ee142c 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml @@ -215,6 +215,15 @@ Readonly DOS attribute set. The advantage of file symlinks is speed, the advantage of shortcut symlinks is the fact that they can be utilized by non-Cygwin Win32 tools as well.</para> +<para>Starting with Cygwin 1.7, symbolic links are using UTF-16 to encode +the filename of the target file, to better support internationalization. +Symlinks created by older Cygwin releases can be read just fine. However, +you could run into problems with them if you're now using another character +set than the one you used when creating these symlinks +(see <xref linkend="setup-locale-problems"></xref>. Please note that this +new UTF-16 style of symlinks is not compatible with older Cygwin release, +which can't read the target filename correctly.</para> + <para>Hard links are fully supported on NTFS and NFS file systems. On FAT and some other file systems, the call falls back to simply copying the file, a strategy that works in many cases.</para> |