bug#6705: w32 cmdproxy.c pass args to cygwin; erroneous charset conversion (problem description, solution/suggestion)

[Jason Rumney]

Laimonas Vėbra <laimonas.vebra@gmail.com> writes:

> This problem certainly needs some discussion (how best to solve it) because 
> it addresses unicode communication aspects/issues. If some won't bother 
> reading all the description, then here is a simple question -- 
> how do one can/should (clearly) pass utf-8 arguments to an external
> (cygwin) app on windows? I suppose, now it's not possible.

Don't use cmdproxy with Cygwin programs. If you need a shell in between,
use Cygwin bash.  cmdproxy is a wrapper to get around some problems with
various versions of the Windows native cmd.exe and command.com shell
programs.  Mixing Cygwin and native Windows is not advised.