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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:55:57 -0400
From: Edward Lam <edward AT sidefx DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.7.0-48: [BUG] Passing characters above 128 from bash command  	line
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun  3 12:02, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:27:55PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jun  3 09:18, Edward Lam wrote:
>>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> The question is, what do you expect?  [...]
>>>> [...]
>>>> Wikipedia has several suggestions on how to handle invalid UTF-8 byte  
>>>> sequences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8). Personally, I favor the  
>>>> rule that uses the replacement character.
>>> Chris implemented using the invalid code point solution.  The discussion
>>> in http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-utf8 AT nl DOT linux DOT org/msg00080.html
>>> supports this solution.  What's missing so far is the way back, from
>>> an invalid single second half of a surrogate pair in the 0xDCxx range
>>> back to the correct byte value.  I'm just looking into that.
>> The way back was not, AFAIK, needed for Cygwin programs.  I don't think
>> there is a valid way back for Windows programs.
> 
> The way back is not needed for the argv handling in Cygwin, but it
> gets necessary if you converted to UTF-16 in other circumstances.
> It's not much of a problem since the way back is a no-brainer, in
> contrast to the conversion to UTF-16.

What is the current state of affairs in cygwin 1.7.0-48? Is the invalid 
code point solution currently being used when converting the command 
line to UTF-16 when spawning non-cygwin processes? What I'm trying to 
understand is where the command line truncation is taking place, in the 
parent or child process.

If the truncation is happening in the child process because of the 
invalid code point, then perhaps we should consider using the 
replacement character solution when spawning non-cygwin child processes. 
IMHO, having a bad character is better than having a truncated command 
line. At least, the problem (invalid UTF-8) then becomes more obvious.

-Edward

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