[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59572] "system" doesn't work for non-ASCII characters on Windows

[Markus Mützel]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59572>

                 Summary: "system" doesn't work for non-ASCII characters on
Windows
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mmuetzel
            Submitted on: Sun 29 Nov 2020 05:52:02 PM CET
                Category: Interpreter
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Unexpected Error or Warning
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: dev
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

The function "system" doesn't work on Windows if the command that should be
executed contains non-ASCII characters.

I have a partial fix almost ready that should fix this in synchronous mode
without output.

I believe I also understand what is necessary to get this to work for
asynchronous calls.

But I'm stuck when it comes to understanding the synchronous case with output.
I don't know how to fix getting output including non-ASCII characters.
Is that done in the iprocstream class? If so, how? Any help would be
appreciated.

I'll upload the partial changeset as soon as I have a bug number.




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