X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:49:19 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.0-48: [BUG] Passing characters above 128 from bash command line Message-ID: <20090603154919.GA22513@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3f0ad08d0905290852xe41338alfda89c622f92f677@mail.gmail.com> <4A200BC0.9010704@sidefx.com> <4A204149.2050009@sidefx.com> <4A2051E5.6060600@sidefx.com> <20090602205440.GF23519@calimero.vinschen.de> <4A26782C.9040207@sidefx.com> <20090603142755.GM23519@calimero.vinschen.de> <4A268C22.8070305@sidefx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A268C22.8070305@sidefx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Jun 3 10:43, Edward Lam wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> What's left as questionable is the LANG=C default case. Due to the >> discussion from the last month we now use UTF-8 as default encoding, >> because it's the only encoding which covers all (valid) characters. >> Sure, we could also convert the command line using the current ANSI >> codepage as Windows does it when calling CreateProcessA in this case. >> >> Maybe we should do that for testing? Anybody having a strong opinion >> here? > > I'm not clear on what you're proposing here. Are you suggesting that if > the conversion from LANG to UTF-16 fails, that we also try a second > attempt from the default system code page to UTF-16? 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. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/