Am 09.03.2018 um 10:40 schrieb Josef Frank:
The "chere" package installs an entry in the windows explorer context menu to
open a mintty window running bash at an arbitrary location.
However the context menu entry "Bash prompt here" does not work, when the
directory path contains a German umlaut in any position. E.g.: using it for c:/temp/ö
results in a Bash prompt opened in _c:/temp_, while opening a windows cmd prompt via
context menu also works with umlauts in the path.
This has been reported before:
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-09/msg00239.html
I though I had responded then but apparently I didn’t; the issue is
described on the mintty Tips wiki page:
https://github.com/mintty/mintty/wiki/Tips#creating-a-folder-context-menu-entry-for-mintty
How do I resolve this issue?
By fixing chere/xhere to handle the additional quoting magically added
by Windows in this case,
or by using the mintty --dir option instead of xhere.
Thomas
FYI:
1. created registry entry is c:\opt\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/xhere /bin/bash.exe "%L" (in
extended context menu "%L" is replaced by "%V"; but this also does not work)
2. locale setting in cygwin: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
3. File system is NTFS. Therefore file names are claimed to be stored in
"Unicode", whatever this means in the respective documentation (Windows Dev
Center description of encoding for file
names[https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317748%28v=vs.85%29.aspx])
4. Codepage in CMD-window: 850 (according to powershell command
[System.Text.Encoding]::Default)
5. Windows codepage: 1252
6. All three programs (windows explorer, cmd.exe, bash in mintty) show the
umlaut in consistent manner despite different encodings
7. Renaming files is not possible as the problem mainly arises on network
drives with folders/files that are a) referred to by lots of links (symbolic as
well as windows shortcuts) and b) owned/shared by multiple different users
Greatly would appreciate help
Thanks in advance
JF
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