[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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