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Date: | Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:29:27 +0200 |
From: | Gunnar Degnbol <degnbol AT danbbs DOT dk> |
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Subject: | UTF-8 problem/bug with Cygwin 1.7 |
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I have a strange problem with UTF-8 characters when running bash from the Windows command line. I hoped it would go away with the new Cygwin 1.7.0-46, but it is still there. Now I have simplified it down to setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and running bash -c "echo £" (where '£' can be any non-ascii character): C:\cygwin17\bin>set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 C:\cygwin17\bin>.\echo £ £ C:\cygwin17\bin>bash -c 'echo a' a C:\cygwin17\bin>bash -c 'echo £' bash: $'echo \302\243': command not found C:\cygwin17\bin>bash -c "$'echo \302\243'" bash: $'echo \302\243': command not found C:\cygwin17\bin>bash -c "echo $'\302\243'" £ It works if I don't set LANG, or set it to something else than UTF-8. It also works in Cygwin 1.5. Seems like UTF-8 makes bash escape the whole command line if it contains non-ascii characters. Maybe it should only escape the non-ascii characters? This might still cause problems with text in quotes. Gunnar -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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