On 2004 September 16 Thursday 06:19, Simon Marlow wrote:
Argv and the environment - I don't know. Windows CreateProcess() allows these to be UTF-16 strings, but I don't know what encoding/decoding happens between CreateProcess() and what the target process sees in its argv[] (can't be bothered to dig through MSDN right now).
In Windows, CommandLineToArgvW provides a way to obtain a Unicode set of argv and argc values from a Unicode command-line string. Visual C++ supports defining a wmain function which is like main except it receives a Unicode argv. I looked for details of how the args are converted for an ordinary C 'main' function, but didn't turn up much else while digging through MSDN. Windows distinguishes between the system code page and the C runtime locale (which is initially ASCII). So Windows would work best if getArgs returns a String, while on Unix it would avoid encoding problems if it returns [Byte].