Greetings, Jérôme Froissart! > Andrey Repin wrote: >> 1. Run CMD in a more capable terminal. Either M$ Terminal 1.0, or select true >> type font for your console. > I tried Windows Terminal 1.3, but this did not change anything :-( > Besides, I think my cmd.exe was already using True Type fonts (if I > understand the icons from the settings window correctly)
> Anyway, I now understand that the terminal I use matters. In my case > however, I do not intend to run the binary (built with Cygwin) in a > terminal at all. > I am using win-sshfs [2]. It is built from Cygwin, but it is then used > as a standalone executable, without any GUI. It is called by a Windows > component/driver (with a command line that contains quoted UTF-8 > arguments), invoked by some clicks and actions from the 'My computer' > window. What could I do so that this program correctly handles the > command line? I would at least run it with LANG env. variable set. F.e. LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 in my case. I further tweak it with LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 to get more consistent program output parsing experience. >> 2. Then you are parsing the command line wrong. In Windows, it is up to >> called >> program to parse the command line. > Right, but my program starts at `int main(int argc, char *argv[])`, > where the parsing is already handled (by some Cygwin runtime > component?). How could I parse it differently? > And would that even make sense that I parse it in a custom way? Since > -I suppose- every C program built by Cygwin faces the same issues, > wouldn't we rather want a "universal" change on how the Cygwin runtime > parses command lines? > For the record, this is what I have done in this program [1], but that > feels more like a work around some UTF-8-related bug than a proper, > custom command line parsing :-S > ...or maybe I'm completely mistaken in how Cygwin works, in case I'd > be happy to be told :-) > [1] https://github.com/billziss-gh/sshfs-win/pull/208 > [2] https://github.com/billziss-gh/sshfs-win P.S. I suggest ln -fs /proc/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/chcp.com /usr/local/bin/chcp -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Sunday, October 11, 2020 21:51:57 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
