Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:16:59 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin passes argv with preserved (") quote. and it is  undesired result.
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On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:25:53AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 05:00:25PM +0900, jojelino wrote:
>>hi
>>here is testcase to reproduce the problem
>>
>>#include <stdio.h>
>>#include <assert.h>
>>int main(int argc, char**argv)
>>{
>>printf("argv %s",argv[1]);
>>open(argv[1],"r");
>>assert(fp);
>>return 0;
>>}
>>build
>>make ЄБ.txt in directory.
>>and run in cmd.exe
>>type,
>>a "ЄБ.txt"
>>
>>and it complains file can't be opened.
>>and you can see argv[1]  is passed with preserved quote (") although it is 
>>invoked in winshell
>>it must be eliminted when it is transduced to cygwin environment.
>
>I don't see preserved quotes but I do see that ARGV has apparently been
>changed to UTF-8 and is represented as: -ё-І.txt
>
>Try setting LANG to something appropriate in your MS-DOS session and see
>if that makes things work better.

I think I've fixed this problem in the upcoming cygwin snapshot at:

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

if you want to give it a try.  It will be in *today's* snapshot, not the
one from 12/29.

cgf

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