Paul, does this solve the problem with shell() on Windows?
> On Aug 22, 2019, at 10:27 PM, dsc--- via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> I tried it.
>
> on mouseUp
> set the shellCommand to "cmd.exe /u"
> put textDecode( shell("dir"), "UTF-16" )
> end mouseUp
>
> That does seem to double up the newlines. It looks like it works otherwise.
>
> Dar
>
>
>> On Aug 22, 2019, at 12:15 PM, dsc--- via use-livecode
>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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!
>>>>
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