Subject: bug#6705: w32 cmdproxy.c pass args to cygwin; erroneous charset conversion (problem description, solution/suggestion)

From: Jason Rumney <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:33:21 +0800

Laimonas Vėbra <[email-masked]> writes:

> This problem certainly needs some discussion (how best to solve it) because it addresses unicode communication aspects/issues. If some won't bother reading all the description, then here is a simple question -- 
> how do one can/should (clearly) pass utf-8 arguments to an external
> (cygwin) app on windows? I suppose, now it's not possible.

Don't use cmdproxy with Cygwin programs. If you need a shell in between,
use Cygwin bash.  cmdproxy is a wrapper to get around some problems with
various versions of the Windows native cmd.exe and command.com shell
programs.  Mixing Cygwin and native Windows is not advised.