On Mar 30 09:43, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 30/03/2012 9:27 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > >If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin > >bash prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an > >outgoing message with `recipient' as recipient and `subject' as > >subject. (This is what happens if I type the same URL into a > >`Start Menu -> Run' box.) What happens instead is that > >`recipient?subject=subject' shows up as the recipient, with the > >question mark replaced by something unprintable, and the subject > >is blank. > > The same behavior is observed with `cygpath -wa ?' (and also cygpath > -w, if the path passed in was non-trivial): > >$ cygpath -wa ? > >C:\cygwin\home\Ryan\ > > > >$ cygpath -w ? > >? > > > >$ cygpath -w ../? > >C:\cygwin\home\ > > FYI, the "unprintable" character is U+F03F, which is not even a > valid unicode character. > > >Is this a bug in cygstart, or am I misunderstanding something? > I suspect a bug in the way cygwin1.dll handles conversion from unix- > to windows-style paths.
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