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Re: shell-quote-argument and multibyte
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Benjamin Riefenstahl |
Subject: |
Re: shell-quote-argument and multibyte |
Date: |
18 Apr 2003 14:14:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Hi Kai,
address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Now, suppose you have a string x which is a filename. Then you
> encode that string into the corresponding filename encoding, which
> just happens to be an encoding which uses ESC. And then you pass
> the whole shebang to shell-quote-argument which will then happily
> escape the ESC for you.
I may be missing something, but why is ESC especially a problem?
Shouldn't shell-quote-argument do just exactly those modifications
that the shell will undo? So that the combination of
shell-quote-argument and the actual parsing of the command-line in the
shell is a no-op?
so long, benny