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Date:	Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:01:52 -0400
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> No.  I'm suggesting to convert the command line always using the default
> ANSI codepage, same as Windows when calling CreateProcessA.  This only
> affects non-Cygwin processes anyway since Cygwin uses another mechanism
> to send the command line arguments to the child process.

Wouldn't that necessarily break non-Cygwin processes that are UTF-16 aware?

-Edward

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