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Re: 1.7.0-48: [BUG] Passing characters above 128 from bash command line


I think that you should set "export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1" instead of
"export LANG=LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1".

2009/5/30 Edward Lam <edward@sidefx.com>:
> IWAMURO Motonori wrote:
>>
>> The encoding of C locale is ASCII, and not ISO-8859-1.
>> I don't think ASCII is the same as ISO-8859-1.
>> Does it work on LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1?
>
> No, it doesn't. Mind you though, I haven't managed to get piconv to
> recognize any of my LANG settings other than C in cygwin 1.7.
>
> $ export LANG=LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1
>
> $ piconv
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> ? ? ? ?LC_ALL = (unset),
> ? ? ? ?LANG = "LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1"
> ? ?are supported and installed on your system.
>
> (... usage omitted...)
>
> $ ./bug arg1 "before `cat copyright.txt` after" arg3
> 0: E:\cygwin1.7\tmp\bug.exe
> 1: arg1
> 2: before
>
> Regards,
> -Edward
>
>> 2009/5/29 Edward Lam <edward@sidefx.com>:
>>>
>>> Alexey Borzenkov wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Edward Lam <edward@sidefx.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> PS. In case you haven't noticed, copyright.txt is not a long file. It
>>>>> consists of a single byte, 0xA9.
>>>>
>>>> Did you try utf-8 encoding copyright.txt? Perhaps your locale is utf-8
>>>> and the encoder fails.
>>>
>>> How is one supposed to determine one's locale in cygwin? I do NOT have
>>> LANG,
>>> or any of the LC environment variables set. I even tried explicitly
>>> setting
>>> LANG=C and it still fails.
>>>
>>> The problem does seem to stem from the new UTF-8 support in cygwin 1.7.
>>> However, I think something is going on here that is unexpected because
>>> trying something similar on Linux has no problems. To confirm that it was
>>> an
>>> UTF-8 related problem, let me repeat the steps slightly differently
>>> again.
>>> Here we assume that I've already got bug.exe compiled which simply prints
>>> out its arguments.
>>>
>>> $ export LANG=C
>>>
>>> $ ./bug arg1 "before `cat copyright.txt` after" arg3
>>> 0: E:\cygwin1.7\tmp\bug.exe
>>> 1: arg1
>>> 2: before
>>>
>>> *Notice that argc is 3 when it should be 4!*
>>>
>>> $ piconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 < copyright.txt > fubar.txt
>>>
>>> $ ./bug arg1 "before `cat fubar.txt` after" arg3
>>> 0: E:\cygwin1.7\tmp\bug.exe
>>> 1: arg1
>>> 2: before © after
>>> 3: arg3
>>>
>>> *So now everything works because I converted the character into UTF-8.*
>>>
>>> I think what this points to is some form of invalid source encoding of
>>> the
>>> command line argument when spawning NATIVE applications.
>>>
>>> Here's what happens when I try to compile bug.c using cygwin's gcc:
>>>
>>> $ gcc bug.c -o bug-gcc.exe
>>>
>>> $ ./bug-gcc arg1 "before `cat copyright.txt` after" arg3
>>> 0: ./bug-gcc
>>> 1: arg1
>>> 2: before © after
>>> 3: arg3
>>>
>>> So there seems to be some sort of special marshaling of the command line
>>> arguments that only works when spawning cygwin apps, but breaks when
>>> running
>>> under native apps.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> -Edward
>>>
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