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Re: 1.7.0-48: [BUG] Passing characters above 128 from bash command line


On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Edward Lam <edward@sidefx.com> wrote:
> Here's some more investigation:
[...]
> So note that even when I'm seems to be an UNICODE-AWARE child process, I'm
> still getting a truncated command line. In fact, call GetCommandLineW()
> directly seems to give a truncated command line
> as well.

And again, you must have misunderstood me. In my opinion: truncation
is a bug (should use replacement character, or fail exec altogether),
expecting utf-8 is not (if you tried to cat your copyright.txt on a
Linux box that uses utf-8, what would you expect to see on the
screen?)

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