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From: Doug Henderson <djndnbvg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Unconsistent command-line parsing in case of UTF-8 quoted
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On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 15:41, J=C3=A9r=C3=B4me 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 "chara=C3=A7t=C3=A9rs" --ascii "nothing-fancy-=
here"

Please show us the output from "uname -a" and "locale" run from the bash pr=
ompt.

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?

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