generating /etc/passwd and /etc/group for domians with users with cyrillic names

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:58:27AM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-patches@cygwin.com> said:
>> Why is that needed? What is the problem with the original functions?
>
>The `wcstombs' included in newlib simply strips the higher byte
>of Unicode. It can't translate Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish, and so on
>from Unicode to their ANSI codepages. WideCharToMultiByte can do
>these translations well.

Would it make sense to augment newlib to do the right thing, then?

cgf