Quotes around command-line argument that has unicode characters are not removed

Steven Penny svnpenn@gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 12:20:00 GMT 2018


On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:39:21, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Due to the weird cmd.exe behaviour, you cannot. However, cygwin could 
> apply a workaround by magic unquoting.

This is correct. note that "run" has this "workaround" already via the "--quote"
option. that code could perhaps be applied in other places:

http://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-apps/run.git&a=blob&f=src/run.1.in


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