Hi.
When I launch a Cygwin program from a native Windows program and an argument in
the command line string is quoted and contains national characters then the
Cygwin program behaves as if double quotes were part of the program argument.
This happens if I don't explicitly set LC_ALL or if I set LC_ALL=C or set
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
This is a problem because arguments with spaces must be quoted.
If I set the locale to some language and country the quotes are removed as
expected no matter what code page I use, UTF-8 or a single-byte code page. The
locale doesn't have to match the alphabet used.
If the argument is not quoted or if it doesn't contain national characters then
it works even with the C locale.
C:\>set LC_ALL=
C:\>C:/cygwin/bin/ls -l C:/test-z-я/some.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 il None 0 Nov 12 09:52 'C:/test-z-'$'/321/217''/some.txt'
C:\>C:/cygwin/bin/ls -l "C:/test-z-я/some.txt"
/usr/bin/ls: cannot access '"C:/test-z-'$'\321\217''/some.txt"': No such
file or directory
C:\>C:/cygwin/bin/ls -l "C:/test-z-Z/some.txt"
-rw-r--r-- 1 il None 0 Nov 12 09:52 C:/test-z-Z/some.txt
C:\>C:\cygwin\bin\locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="C.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="C.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="C.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
C:\>set LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
C:\>C:/cygwin/bin/ls -l "C:/test-z-я/some.txt"
/usr/bin/ls: cannot access '"C:/test-z-я/some.txt"': No such file or
directory
C:\>set LC_ALL=en_US.CP1252
C:\>C:/cygwin/bin/ls -l "C:/test-z-я/some.txt"
-rw-r--r-- 1 il None 0 Nov 12 09:52 'C:/test-z-'$'/030''N'$'/217''/some.txt'
C:\>set LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
C:\>C:/cygwin/bin/ls -l "C:/test-z-я/some.txt"
-rw-r--r-- 1 il None 0 Nov 12 09:52 'C:/test-z-я/some.txt'
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