From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no, 51832@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51832: Piping unicode text in `shell-command'
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:13:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mtm7upc4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y25r8968.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 14 Nov 2021 08:53:51 +0100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Tor Kringeland <tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no>, 51832@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 08:53:51 +0100
>
> >> (shell-command "echo -n '悟' | pbcopy")
> >>
> >> or
> >>
> >> (shell-command "echo -n 'øøøø' | pbcopy")
> >>
> >> fills the clipboard with `ÊÇü' and `√∏', respectively, while if I run
> >> the same commands in a terminal emulator outside Emacs I get back the
> >> original input. The same happens if I run the same shell commands in
> >> `eshell'. This happens when I run a recent build of Emacs 29 with `-Q'
> >> on macOS Catalina.
> >
> > Please be specific about the "recent build" part: which commit are you
> > using?
>
> I'm seeing the same issue with the current tree on Macos.
>
> > There were some problems with the clipboard that were recently fixed.
>
> This doesn't involve Emacs' interactions with the clipboard, though --
> the pbcopy command is what's putting things on the clipboard. But
> pbcopy's apparently misinterpreting the bytes it's getting over the pipe
> somehow, which is surprising, because I assumed shell-command just sent
> the entire string to a shell for execution. (But I haven't read the
> code.)
It could be useful to replace the pipe with redirection to a file, and
see what you get when invoking the command from Emacs and from a shell
prompt outside Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-14 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-14 3:10 bug#51832: Piping unicode text in `shell-command' Tor Kringeland
2021-11-14 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-14 7:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-11-14 8:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-14 9:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 9:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 9:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-14 10:41 ` Philipp
2021-11-14 10:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-14 11:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 11:48 ` Philipp
2021-11-14 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-14 12:31 ` Alan Third
2021-11-14 13:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 14:23 ` Philipp
2021-11-14 14:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 15:20 ` Alan Third
2021-11-14 15:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-16 20:52 ` Alan Third
2022-09-20 13:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 15:01 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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