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bug#6546: bug#6705: w32 cmdproxy.c pass args to cygwin; erroneous charse
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#6546: bug#6705: w32 cmdproxy.c pass args to cygwin; erroneous charset conversion (problem description, solution/suggestion) |
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Date: |
Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:25:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> I think this bug should be closed. Support for mixing a native w32
> Emacs with Cygwin external programs is limited where character
> encoding is involved because of the limitations of the APIs we use in
> Emacs to invoke external programs, and because native w32 bui8lds of
> external programs in most cases support only a single system codepage.
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> So people who want to be able to invoke Cygwin programs from Emacs and
> play by Cygwin LANG and locale rules (which emulate quite well the
> Posix environment) should use a Cygwin build of Emacs.
OK; closing this bug report, then.
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