[GRASS-dev] winGRASS: enabling non-english languages?

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> > Even if we continue to use _spawn*, the quoting code can be taken from
> > 7.0; see escaped() in lib/gis/spawn.c. The code is actually quite
> > tricky, due to the bizarre quoting rules:
> >
> >        http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/17w5ykft.aspx
> 
> Would it be possible for you to suggest a patch?

I'll look into it.

> > If the problem is with GISBASE, you could try manually changing it to
> > use "progra~1" in place of "Program Files" (more generally, "dir /x"
> > lists the short names if you need them for other cases).
> 
> OK, we'll try, thanks.

FWIW, I'm not suggesting this as a "solution", but as a workaround for
that particular issue so that it doesn't hold up other testing.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>