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From: Doug Henderson <djndnbvg@gmail.com>
To: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Unconsistent command-line parsing in case of UTF-8 quoted arguments
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 20:22:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ1FpuNi1H5tXVVbhGm-0m+OcgmDkEYJ=48biPYmXEZ9saSP1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFC9CLCtfMORMxAK6==jdwY5ZbX6jWwo+JCfDwM3njgvGduf0w@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 15:41, Jérôme Froissart <> wrote:
>
> By discussing a merge request on another project [1], I think
> billziss-gh found a weirdness in the way Cygwin parses the command
> line arguments when non-ASCII characters come into play.
>
> EXPECTED BEHAVIOUR:
> cygwin should parse the following command line
>     binary.exe --non-ascii "charaçtérs" --ascii "nothing-fancy-here"

Please show us the output from "uname -a" and "locale" run from the bash prompt.

Tell is more about "binary.exe". Is it compiled for cygwon with gcc,
for windows with mingw64 or windows with a native tool chain. Also are
you running it from a bash prompt or a cmd.exe prompt?

-- 
Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-03  2:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-02 21:40 Jérôme Froissart
2020-10-03  2:22 ` Doug Henderson [this message]
2020-10-04 11:18 ` Andrey Repin
2020-10-06 21:36   ` Jérôme Froissart
2020-10-07  1:10     ` Andrey Repin
2020-10-07 22:21       ` Jérôme Froissart
2020-10-11 18:55         ` Andrey Repin
2020-10-07  2:20     ` Brian Inglis
2020-10-07  5:17     ` Thomas Wolff
2020-10-07 23:32       ` Brian Inglis
2020-10-08  0:59         ` Eliot Moss
2020-10-08  6:22           ` Brian Inglis
2020-10-13 16:30     ` Kaz Kylheku (Cygwin)
2020-10-14 21:47       ` Jérôme Froissart
2020-10-14 22:14         ` Jérôme Froissart
2020-10-15  5:14         ` UTF-8 quoted args passed to program include quotes when run from cmd Brian Inglis
2020-10-19  2:32         ` Unconsistent command-line parsing in case of UTF-8 quoted arguments Kaz Kylheku (Cygwin)
2020-10-13 17:34     ` Brian Inglis

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