cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs
Ryan Johnson
ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca
Fri Mar 30 13:44:00 GMT 2012
On 30/03/2012 9:27 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin bash
> prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an outgoing
> message with `recipient' as recipient and `subject' as subject. (This
> is what happens if I type the same URL into a `Start Menu -> Run'
> box.) What happens instead is that `recipient?subject=subject' shows
> up as the recipient, with the question mark replaced by something
> unprintable, and the subject is blank.
The same behavior is observed with `cygpath -wa ?' (and also cygpath -w,
if the path passed in was non-trivial):
> $ cygpath -wa ?
> C:\cygwin\home\Ryan\ï¿
>
> $ cygpath -w ?
> ?
>
> $ cygpath -w ../?
> C:\cygwin\home\ï¿
FYI, the "unprintable" character is U+F03F, which is not even a valid
unicode character.
> Is this a bug in cygstart, or am I misunderstanding something?
I suspect a bug in the way cygwin1.dll handles conversion from unix- to
windows-style paths.
Ryan
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