Greetings, Jérôme Froissart! > Now, let's start a Windows shell (cmd.exe)
That explains it. > Note that I had to copy cygwin1.dll from my Cygwin installation > directory, otherwise binary.exe would not start. > I do not know whether there is a `locale` equivalent in Windows We've specifically asked to run Cygwin's /bin/locale.exe tool. > command prompt, so I merely ran my program. > C:\Users\Public>binary.exe "foo bar" "Jérôme" > C=binary.exe "foo bar" "J□r□me" > 0=binary > 1=foo bar > 2="Jérôme" > This behaviour is not expected and is quite inconsistent with what > happened through Bash. > Besides the "strange squares" that appear on the first line, and the 1. Run CMD in a more capable terminal. Either M$ Terminal 1.0, or select true type font for your console. > extra space after binary.exe, I especially did not expect "Jérôme" to > remain quoted as a second argument. 2. Then you are parsing the command line wrong. In Windows, it is up to called program to parse the command line. > Sorry for the delay in my answer. I hope this is now clear, please ask > me for more examples or investigation if you need. > Thanks for your help. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, October 7, 2020 1:02:59 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple