On Jul 14, 2016, at 8:36 AM, Brien Oberstein <brien...@gmail.com> wrote: > > cygpath -w 'a"b' doesn't seem to translate the double quotes into a windows > accesible file name.
Double quotes are illegal on NTFS: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/aa365247.aspx > what is the proper way to translate from cygwin > filenames with special mapped characters (eg " and : )? If you look at such a file name in Explorer, Cygwin (?) seems to be mapping double-quotes to U+F022, which is currently not defined within Unicode: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/f022/ That’s fine as far as Cygwin goes, but it still isn’t going to make native Windows programs believe that double-quotes are legal in file names. While playing with all of this, I stumbled across an actual cygpath bug: $ mkdir 'the "foo" directory’ $ cygpath -w 'the "foo" directory/' | od -c 0000000 t h e " f o o 357 200 242 d i r e 0000020 c t o r y \ \n 0000027 That is, it translates the second double-quote only. Attempting something more like what Brien talks about also fails: $ mkdir 'a"b' $ explorer 'a"b' # opens my Documents folder! $ explorer "$(cygpath -w 'a"b')" # ditto $ explorer $(echo -e "a\xEF\x80\xA2b") # opens expected folder Strange stuff. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
