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win32 grep/shell utf-8 encoding

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Message #66 received at 6546 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: laimonas.vebra <at> gmail.com, 6546 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 6705 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6546: bug#6705: w32 cmdproxy.c pass args to cygwin;
 erroneous charset conversion (problem description, solution/suggestion)
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:25:32 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I think this bug should be closed.  Support for mixing a native w32
> Emacs with Cygwin external programs is limited where character
> encoding is involved because of the limitations of the APIs we use in
> Emacs to invoke external programs, and because native w32 bui8lds of
> external programs in most cases support only a single system codepage.
>
> So people who want to be able to invoke Cygwin programs from Emacs and
> play by Cygwin LANG and locale rules (which emulate quite well the
> Posix environment) should use a Cygwin build of Emacs.

OK; closing this bug report, then.

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