winGRASS path detection fails in Japanese locale (¥ instead of \ is used for c:\ etc)

[neteler]

There is a failure in interpreting the GRASS paths in Japanese locale:

C:¥Program Files¥GRASS-6-SVN>g.gui help
'g.gui' は、内部コマンドまたは外部コマンド、
操作可能なプログラムまたはバッチ ファイルとして認識されていません。

(Rough Translation: "g.gui internal or external command, Not recognized as an operable program or batch file.")

If I change directly into the GRASS binary path, it works:

C:¥Program Files¥GRASS-6-SVN>cd bin

C:¥Program Files¥GRASS-6-SVN¥bin>g.gui help

Description:
 Launches a GRASS graphical user interface (GUI) session.
...

The paths look like this:

C:¥Program Files¥GRASS-6-SVN¥bin>path
PATH=C:¥PROGRA‾1¥GRASS-6-SVN¥tcl-tk¥bin;C:¥PROGRA‾1¥GRASS-6-SVN¥sqlite¥bin;C:¥PR
OGRA‾1¥GRASS-6-SVN¥gpsbabel;C:¥PROGRA‾1¥GRASS-6-SVN¥extrabin;C:¥PROGRA‾1¥GRASS-6
-SVN¥extralib;C:¥PROGRA‾1¥GRASS-6-SVN¥msys¥bin;C:¥Program Files¥ruby¥bin;C:¥Prog
ram Files¥ThinkPad¥Utilities;C:¥WINDOWS¥system32;C:¥WINDOWS;C:¥WINDOWS¥System32¥
Wbem;C:¥Program Files¥IBM ThinkVantage¥Client Security Solution;C:¥ms4w¥Apache¥c
gi-bin;C:¥Program Files¥MySQL¥MySQL Server 5.1¥bin

The same will apply to Chinese, Korean, various Indian etc. locales.

[neteler]

Japanese locale path detection problem

[neteler]

OK, my bad. The point is that when starting GRASS in cmd.exe, the terminal does NOT become a GRASS shell (see prompt below). Not surprisingly nothing works.

Changing into enhancement: grass64.bat should print into the terminal that it is GUI-only and not a GRASS shell and that for a GRASS shell the user should use a different menu entry. This would reduce the (potential) confusion...

But I am not sure where this message (better worded) should go.

Markus