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Re: Redirecting cat and paste to file gives garbage
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 17:32:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: Redirecting cat and paste to file gives garbage
- References: <5203A1A3 dot 30200 at cs dot utoronto dot ca>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Aug 8 09:48, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> (no, that's not a typo in the subject line)
>
> 64-bit install, bash inside mintty, all latest packages with the
> cygwin1.dll snapshot shown below...
>
> # <<< --- begin STC --->>>
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 ryan-laptop-v02 1.7.23s(0.268/5/3) 20130729 19:11:42
> x86_64 Cygwin
>
> $ echo "Reading" > /dev/clipboard
>
> # hit [shift]+[insert] to paste
> # (hopefully 8 characters is not "too long" to paste into a TTY)
> # then hit ^D to finish
> $ cat > tmp.txt
>
> $ cat tmp.txt
> Rg
> eRaedaidnign
> g
The only idea I have is this. The clipboard data is stored as
CF_UNICODETEXT and as the Cygwin-private CYGWIN_NATIVE_CLIPBOARD format.
How's shift-insert implemented in mintty? If it reads the CF_UNICODETEXT
part and sends it to the pty unchanged, that could explain
this behaviour.
Corinna
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