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Re: Bug: Cygwin won't export environ vars to win32 programs, when the current work dir contains non-ascii characters.


On Apr 29 16:20, Lenik wrote:
> (Following example is based on bash, but the same to ash, tcsh, ksh,  
> etc., so this should be bug of cygwin.)
> [...]
> (2) With Chinese characters, most variables are lost:
>         C:\Profiles\Shecti\??????>bash -c "cmd /c set"
>         COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
>         PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.JS;.WS
>         PROMPT=$P$G
>
>         C:\Profiles\Shecti\??????>
> [...]
>                   "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2009/1/27 23:49
>     Cygwin DLL version info:
>         DLL version: 1.7.0
>         DLL epoch: 19
>         DLL old termios: 5
>         DLL malloc env: 28
>         API major: 0
>         API minor: 192
>         Shared data: 5
>         DLL identifier: cygwin1
>         Mount registry: 3
>         Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>         Program options name: Program Options
>         Cygdrive default prefix: 
>         Build date: Tue Jan 27 16:49:28 CET 2009
>         Shared id: cygwin1S5

Try with the latest Cygwin 1.7 DLL.  Yours from January still has a bug
which results in a broken environment when using native chars in
environment variables.  This bug has been fixed in 1.7.0-46.


Corinna

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