The shellCommand property for Windows is "cmd.exe", not "command.com <http://command.com/>" as described in the dictionary.
I wonder how setting that to "cmd.exe /u" would affect this behavior. > On Aug 22, 2019, at 10:19 AM, Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Concerning 22335... > > 1. I wonder if anyone uses shell() to return binary values. > > 2. I wonder about whether using the shellCommand property would help. > >> On Aug 22, 2019, at 9:37 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> I have filed two bug reports that are in LC905rc1 and go back to 7.0 where >> LC functions that should deal with Unicode properly do not. >> >> These are: >> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22213 -- The "detailed files" >> function fails for any files with Unicode in the name, returning the >> filename with %3F (?) instead of the Unicode characters properly URL encoded >> (they should be UFT8 encoded and then URL encoded) >> and >> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22334 -- the shell command is >> not Unicode aware in returning it's results. On OSX, the results are UTF8 >> encoded (discovered by accident) and so an extra step is needed to text >> decode them, but on Windows it is a complete failure and any Unicode results >> of the command line - SHOWN 100% correctly is executed in the command line - >> are returned NATIVE encoded, causing all Unicode characters to become >> question marks. >> >> I have written work-around for both of these bugs that can be found in the >> bug reports. My work-around for the "details files" is slow, due to repeated >> calls to shell to fetch file properties one at a time. >> >> If anyone else out there has run into these bugs in your own code and >> developed a faster work-around for the "detailed files" and would care to >> share, I would welcome a faster fix. >> >> Of course, I'd welcome a fix from LiveCode, Ltd. to these bugs even more! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
