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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:47:24 -0400
From: Ryan Johnson <ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca>
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Subject: Re: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs
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On 30/03/2012 9:43 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 30/03/2012 9:27 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin 
>> bash prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an 
>> outgoing message with `recipient' as recipient and `subject' as 
>> subject. (This is what happens if I type the same URL into a `Start 
>> Menu -> Run' box.) What happens instead is that 
>> `recipient?subject=subject' shows up as the recipient, with the 
>> question mark replaced by something unprintable, and the subject is 
>> blank.
>
> FYI, the "unprintable" character is U+F03F, which is not even a valid 
> unicode character.
... and, coincidentally, the ascii code for '?' is 0x3f.

Ryan


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