Re: Quotes around command-line argument that has unicode characters are not removed

["Dmitry Katsubo via cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On 2018-03-22 14:25, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Mikhail Usenko!
> 
>> In bare cmd.exe native-msvcrt binary is working OK with quoted non-ascii
>> arguments, while cygwin-flavor binary is not. But I don't know exactly which
>> level here: cmd.exe or msvcrt.dll/cygwin1.dll is responsible for
>> such a behavior.

Thanks, Mikhail! I generally agree with you. If you follow the links I've
provided in my original mail, you can see that cmd.exe does not do any argument
splitting. I also see that from this method signature [1]:

build_argv (char *cmd, char **&argv, int &argc, int winshell)

which basically takes a string as input and returns an array of strings plus
number of arguments as output. So this is either done by msvcrt.dll or by
cygwin1.dll and they have different ways of doing that, which is OK provided
it is documented and done consistently. I refer back to dcrt0.cc where the
woodoo is done. In particular in line 165 [2] it checks that execution was
performed from bare Windows, and behaves differently.

On 2018-03-22 12:24, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Run it in bash. I'm pretty sure you will see your results more consistent.

When "test.exe" is run from bash, it behaves correctly because as you said
bash did the most of dirty work. I also tried to workaround like below,
but it does not work:

D:\cli> bash -c "./test 'текст плюс.txt'"
bash: ./test 'текст плюс.txt': No such file or directory

> Locale settings affecting Cygwin binary.
> 
> If you
> set LANG=ru_RU.CP866
> (f.e.)
> before invoking cygwin testcase in native CMD, you will likely see it
> working better.

Thanks for this advise, Andrey. I see that it reacts, but works worth :)
I think it advises to output characters in CP866, but console is UTF-8:

D:\cli> set LANG=ru_RU.CP866

D:\cli> test "текст плюс.txt"
param 0 = test
param 1 = ⥪▒▒ ▒▒▒▒.txt
Failed to open '⥪▒▒ ▒▒▒▒.txt': No such file or directory

But.. ta-da! I made it working like that:

D:\cli> set LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8

D:\cli> test "текст плюс.txt"
param 0 = test
param 1 = текст плюс.txt
File 'текст плюс.txt' was opened

Hooray, it worked!

> Alternatively, you could try
> chcp 65001

That does not help:

D:\cli> chcp 65001
Active code page: 65001

D:\cli> test "текст плюс.txt"
param 0 = test
param 1 = "текст плюс.txt"
Failed to open '"текст плюс.txt"': No such file or directory

[1] https://github.com/openunix/cygwin/blob/master/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc#L297
[2] https://github.com/openunix/cygwin/blob/master/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc#L165

-- 
With best regards,
Dmitry

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