shell expansion produces e.g. "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory" in Windows CMD shell, but works okay in bash

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 23.03.2020 um 20:13 schrieb Andrey Repin:
> Greetings, Jay Libove!
>
> ...
>> If I set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in a Windows CMD window, **then the globbing problem goes away**.
I was about to respond that cmd.exe does not do shell expansion but in 
fact there is a cygwin workaround to replace it with library-run 
expansion. Maybe it's done before the locale is set up in cygwin dll? 
Could the order be reversed?
Thomas

>> I'm not sure how that points towards a solution, but it certainly must be a clue.
> I have LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 set in the user environment, but i have an autostart
> script for cmd.exe to set LANG=ru_RU.CP866 when I want to work in plain
> command prompt. But then again, I have code in ~/.bashrc which would
>
> 1. chcp 65001
> 2. export "LANG=$(locale -uU)"
>
> which helps transitioning from native applications to (saner) Cygwin environment.
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