[wpkg-users] [Bug 171] User notification does not work on Vista

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http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171





--- Comment #4 from Rainer Meier <r.meier at wpkg.org>  2009-09-07 10:57:26 ---
Very nice... what a crap...

Actually the quotes for the "echo" command are not required. If you use them
they will be passed to msg.exe and appear as a part of the piped characters.

Moreover the solution has some issues too. Using pipes requires executing
%COMSPEC% so I've tried "%COMSPEC% /c echo message | msg.exe" but this mangles
UTF-8 characters (which is very important since WPKG supports UTF-8 characters
in message strings and lots of non-english strings include non CP850
characters.

I've tried "%COMSPEC% /u /c echo message | msg.exe" too which is supposed to
forward pipe output as unicode. But it still garbled unicode characters.

Then I've tried "%COMSPEC% /u /c chcp 65001 && echo message | msg.exe" where
chcp is supposed to set cmd into UTF-8 mode. But it did not work either.

So currently I don't know how to pipe unicode characters correctly to msg.exe.
Maybe msg.exe does not correctly accept unicode characters via STDIN.

So unless somebody finds a work-around for this problem we stick to 256
characters in "msg" mode.

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