GNU bug report logs - #6705
w32 cmdproxy.c pass args to cygwin; erroneous charset conversion (problem description, solution/suggestion)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Laimonas Vėbra <laimonas.vebra <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 6546

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Laimonas Vėbra <laimonas.vebra <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 6705 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6705: w32 cmdproxy.c pass args to cygwin; erroneous charset
	conversion (problem description, solution/suggestion)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:53:00 +0300

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:35:40 +0300
>> From: Laimonas Vėbra<laimonas.vebra <at> gmail.com>
>> CC: 6705 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> M-x grep
>> test.exe "ĔĿİ">  out.txt
>>
>> $ cat out.txt
>> argv[1]: ĔĿİ
>
> And what does that prove, exactly?  That MinGW programs can support
> non-ASCII characters?  I never said they didn't.

Exactly? It means, that now mingw (native) programs can receive args 
from Emacs in whatever (except utf-16|32 and maybe few others) encoding 
without corruption. That's what i also expect (want) for the cygwin.
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