From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: awrhygty@outlook.com
Cc: 65300@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65300: 29.1; fail to start process under a directory with foreign characters
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:10:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v8dga7cz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <TYZPR01MB3920044FF35406854EAF4176C314A@TYZPR01MB3920.apcprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> (awrhygty@outlook.com)
tags 65300 wontfix
close 65300
thanks
> From: awrhygty@outlook.com
> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:09:15 +0900
>
>
> If 'default-directory contains characters not encodable with local
> language encoding(cp932 for Japanese Windows OS),
> #'start-process fails to start subprocess.
>
> For example, set 'default-directory to "c:/tmp/test丄" and 'M-x shell'
> fails with the error message:
> start-process: Spawning child process: Exec format error
This is a known limitation of starting subprocesses from Emacs on
Windows: we only support running them in directories and with
command-line arguments that can be encoded by the system codepage.
The reasons are explained in a large comment that starts around line
1570 of src/w32.c.
Sorry.
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2023-08-15 4:09 bug#65300: 29.1; fail to start process under a directory with foreign characters awrhygty
2023-08-15 11:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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