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Date:	Sat, 30 May 2009 00:13:48 +0900
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Subject:	Re: 1.7.0-48: [BUG] Passing characters above 128 from bash command line
From:	IWAMURO Motonori <deenheart AT gmail DOT com>
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Hi.

The encoding of C locale is ASCII, and not ISO-8859-1.
I don't think ASCII is the same as ISO-8859-1.
Does it work on LANG=3Den_US.ISO-8859-1?

2009/5/29 Edward Lam <edward AT sidefx DOT com>:
> Alexey Borzenkov wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Edward Lam <edward AT sidefx DOT com> wrote:
>>>
>>> PS. In case you haven't noticed, copyright.txt is not a long file. It
>>> consists of a single byte, 0xA9.
>>
>> Did you try utf-8 encoding copyright.txt? Perhaps your locale is utf-8
>> and the encoder fails.
>
> How is one supposed to determine one's locale in cygwin? I do NOT have LA=
NG,
> or any of the LC environment variables set. I even tried explicitly setti=
ng
> LANG=3DC and it still fails.
>
> The problem does seem to stem from the new UTF-8 support in cygwin 1.7.
> However, I think something is going on here that is unexpected because
> trying something similar on Linux has no problems. To confirm that it was=
 an
> UTF-8 related problem, let me repeat the steps slightly differently again.
> Here we assume that I've already got bug.exe compiled which simply prints
> out its arguments.
>
> $ export LANG=3DC
>
> $ ./bug arg1 "before `cat copyright.txt` after" arg3
> 0: E:\cygwin1.7\tmp\bug.exe
> 1: arg1
> 2: before
>
> *Notice that argc is 3 when it should be 4!*
>
> $ piconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 < copyright.txt > fubar.txt
>
> $ ./bug arg1 "before `cat fubar.txt` after" arg3
> 0: E:\cygwin1.7\tmp\bug.exe
> 1: arg1
> 2: before =A9 after
> 3: arg3
>
> *So now everything works because I converted the character into UTF-8.*
>
> I think what this points to is some form of invalid source encoding of the
> command line argument when spawning NATIVE applications.
>
> Here's what happens when I try to compile bug.c using cygwin's gcc:
>
> $ gcc bug.c -o bug-gcc.exe
>
> $ ./bug-gcc arg1 "before `cat copyright.txt` after" arg3
> 0: ./bug-gcc
> 1: arg1
> 2: before =A9 after
> 3: arg3
>
> So there seems to be some sort of special marshaling of the command line
> arguments that only works when spawning cygwin apps, but breaks when runn=
ing
> under native apps.
>
> Regards,
> -Edward
>
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