On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 11:26:10 +0100 (CET)
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> When running Cygwin's Bash in the Windows Terminal (see
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/ for details), Cygwin
> is receiving keyboard input in the form of UTF-16 characters.
> 
> UTF-16 has that awkward challenge that it cannot map the full Unicode
> range, and to make up for it, there are the ranges U+D800-U+DBFF and
> U+DC00-U+DFFF which are illegal except when they come in a pair encoding
> for Unicode characters beyond U+FFFF.
> 
> Cygwin does not handle such surrogate pairs correctly at the moment, as
> can be seen e.g. when running Cygwin's Bash in the Windows Terminal and
> then inserting an emoji (e.g. via Windows + <dot>, which opens an emoji
> picker on recent Windows versions): Instead of showing an emoji, this
> shows the infamous question mark in a black triangle, i.e. the invalid
> Unicode character.
> 
> Let's special-case surrogate pairs in this scenario.
> 
> This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3281
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>
> ---
> 
>       This applies without merge conflict all the way back to
>       cygwin_2_7_0-release.
> 
>  winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc 
> b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc
> index 3e17fd9a41..d11f4a4770 100644
> --- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc
> +++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc
> @@ -453,7 +453,22 @@ fhandler_console::read (void *pv, size_t& buflen)
>           }
>         else
>           {
> -           nread = con.con_to_str (tmp + 1, 59, unicode_char);
> +           WCHAR second = unicode_char >= 0xd800 && unicode_char <= 0xdbff
> +               && i + 1 < total_read ?
> +               input_rec[i + 1].Event.KeyEvent.uChar.UnicodeChar : 0;
> +
> +           if (second < 0xdc00 || second > 0xdfff)
> +             {
> +               nread = con.con_to_str (tmp + 1, 59, unicode_char);
> +             }
> +           else
> +             {
> +               /* handle surrogate pairs */
> +               WCHAR pair[2] = { unicode_char, second };
> +               nread = sys_wcstombs (tmp + 1, 59, pair, 2);
> +               i++;
> +             }
> +
>             /* Determine if the keystroke is modified by META.  The tricky
>                part is to distinguish whether the right Alt key should be
>                recognized as Alt, or as AltGr. */
> --
> 2.34.0.rc2.windows.1
> 

Thanks for the patch. LGTM.
I will push the patch to the master branch.


Corinna,

Should we apply this patch also to cygwin-3_3-branch?
Or should only the bug fix be for cygwin-3_3-branch?

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp>

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