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Re: Quotes around command-line argument that has unicode characters are not removed
- From: Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:55:30 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Quotes around command-line argument that has unicode characters are not removed
- References: <80cca6dd-f7a7-3dda-9c95-8bfb9e97956d@towo.net>
On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:39:21, Thomas Wolff wrote:
Due to the weird cmd.exe behaviour, you cannot. However, cygwin could
apply a workaround by magic unquoting.
This is correct. note that "run" has this "workaround" already via the "--quote"
option. that code could perhaps be applied in other places:
http://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-apps/run.git&a=blob&f=src/run.1.in
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