1.7.0-48: [BUG] Passing characters above 128 from bash command line

IWAMURO Motonori deenheart@gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 16:23:00 GMT 2009


And, I think that UTF-8 is best solution when the setting of LC_CTYPE
category is C.

2009/6/4 IWAMURO Motonori <deenheart@gmail.com>:
> I think that this problem is caused by missing setting the locale
> environment variable.
> Therefore, I think that the problem can be solved by compelling the
> setting with setup.exe.
>
> 2009/6/4 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR
>> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU
>>
>> On Jun  4 00:03, IWAMURO Motonori wrote:
>>> 2009/6/3 Corinna Vinschen
>>> > What's left as questionable is the LANG=C default case.  Due to the
>>> > discussion from the last month we now use UTF-8 as default encoding,
>>> > because it's the only encoding which covers all (valid) characters.
>>> > Sure, we could also convert the command line using the current ANSI
>>> > codepage as Windows does it when calling CreateProcessA in this case.
>>> >
>>> > Maybe we should do that for testing?  Anybody having a strong opinion
>>> > here?
>>
>>> How about the addition of the setting of the locale environment
>>> variable (like LANG) to the Cygwin installer?
>>
>> I'm sorry, but I don't understand how that's connected to the behaviour
>> of the Cygwin DLL.  Setup.exe is an entirely different beast.
>>
>>
>> Corinna
>>
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