Don't use single quotes as quotes in command-line parsing on windows?

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Sat Nov 7 15:33:06 GMT 2009


Philippe Lhoste пишет:
> On 06/11/2009 18:51, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>> In my understanding this will break usual behavior of windows 
>> programs, because standard windows shell and especially 
>> CommandLineToArgv Win32 API function does not support single quotes in 
>> this manner. Especially as Martin (gzlist) noted it will break work 
>> with filenames which has single quote inside:
> 
> I agree. For better or worse, single quotes have no shell meaning in 
> Windows, something like del 'ab cd' will be perceived as a command with 
> two arguments.
> 
>> I've sent merge proposal to disable support for single quote:
>>
>> https://code.launchpad.net/~bialix/bzr/no-single-quote-on-win32/+merge/14537 
> 
> 
> Not sure what I can do with this merge proposal, but well, I vocally 
> give my two cents here...

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