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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:12:31 +0200
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Subject: Re: 1.7.0-48: [BUG] Passing characters above 128 from bash command 	line
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On Jun  3 12:01, Edward Lam wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> No.  I'm suggesting to convert the command line always using the default
>> ANSI codepage, same as Windows when calling CreateProcessA.  This only
>> affects non-Cygwin processes anyway since Cygwin uses another mechanism
>> to send the command line arguments to the child process.
>
> Wouldn't that necessarily break non-Cygwin processes that are UTF-16 aware?

How?  They get the commnd line in UTF-16 anyway.


Corinna

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