X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:14:32 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs Message-ID: <20120330151432.GR30721@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4F75B4D7.8060407@cornell.edu> <4F75B89A.8050301@cs.utoronto.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4F75B89A.8050301@cs.utoronto.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 Mar 30 09:43, 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. > > The same behavior is observed with `cygpath -wa ?' (and also cygpath > -w, if the path passed in was non-trivial): > >$ cygpath -wa ? > >C:\cygwin\home\Ryan\ > > > >$ cygpath -w ? > >? > > > >$ cygpath -w ../? > >C:\cygwin\home\ > > FYI, the "unprintable" character is U+F03F, which is not even a > valid unicode character. > > >Is this a bug in cygstart, or am I misunderstanding something? > I suspect a bug in the way cygwin1.dll handles conversion from unix- > to windows-style paths. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#IAFNAB http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple