Re: cygwin passes argv with preserved (") quote. and it is undesired result.

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 05:00:25PM +0900, jojelino wrote:
>hi
>here is testcase to reproduce the problem
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <assert.h>
>int main(int argc, char**argv)
>{
>printf("argv %s",argv[1]);
>open(argv[1],"r");
>assert(fp);
>return 0;
>}
>build
>make ¤±.txt in directory.
>and run in cmd.exe
>type,
>a "¤±.txt"
>
>and it complains file can't be opened.
>and you can see argv[1]  is passed with preserved quote (") although it is 
>invoked in winshell
>it must be eliminted when it is transduced to cygwin environment.

I don't see preserved quotes but I do see that ARGV has apparently been
changed to UTF-8 and is represented as: -ñ-¦.txt

Try setting LANG to something appropriate in your MS-DOS session and see
if that makes things work better.

cgf

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