[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils 1.4.16-5
Mark Geisert
mark@maxrnd.com
Thu Aug 26 19:08:24 GMT 2021
Hi Takashi,
Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
> I tested 1.4.16-5 and found another problem in putclip.
>
> If non-ASCII chars are passed to putclip, clip board
> has garbage at the end.
>
> Run 'echo αβγ | putclip', then paste clip board to
> notepad. 'αβγ' is pasted with a few bytes of garbage.
>
> It seems that the longer non-ASCII string generages longer
> garbage.
>
> Running 'echo αβγαβγαβγαβγαβγαβγ | putclip'
> and pasting clip board here, results something like:
>
> αβγαβγαβγαβγαβγαβγ
> z⊨z⊨z⊨z⊨z⊨zἰz⊨z᪨zἰ
>
> Sometimes, error message:
> "Couldn't write CF_TEXT format to the clipboard."
> is shown.
>
> My locale is "ja_JP.UTF-8".
>
> Could you please have a look?
Thanks for the report and especially the testcase. I can reproduce this.
Something like 'cat foo | putclip' where the file foo contains Unicode does work.
It's the use of 'echo' with Unicode chars that fails. I'll add that testcase to
my procedures and respin -5 with the fix when ready.
..mark
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