1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/callproc.c b/src/callproc.c
index ca593db58b4..18f11c1d8b7 100644
--- a/src/callproc.c
+++ b/src/callproc.c
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ If you quit, the process is killed with SIGINT, or SIGKILL if you quit again.")
       {
         int must_encode = 0;
 
-        for (i = 0; i < nargs; i++)
+        for (i = 4; i < nargs; i++)
           if (STRING_MULTIBYTE (args[i]))
             must_encode = 1;