[Gambas-user] Quote() doesn't manage special italian chars - bug?

[Stefano Palmeri]

Alle 13:04, sabato 10 novembre 2007, Benoit Minisini ha scritto:
> On samedi 10 novembre 2007, Stefano Palmeri wrote:
> > Alle 12:44, sabato 10 novembre 2007, Benoit Minisini ha scritto:
> > > On vendredi 9 novembre 2007, Stefano Palmeri wrote:
> > > > Alle 20:11, venerdì 9 novembre 2007, Benoit Minisini ha scritto:
> > > > > On vendredi 9 novembre 2007, Stefano Palmeri wrote:
> > > > > > Hi, Benoit
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Playing with Quote() in a SHELL command I discovered that
> > > > > > Quote() is not able to manage special italian chars. I don't
> > > > > > know if the bug(?) exists with other languages.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Here is an example and the result:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  PUBLIC SUB Main()
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   PRINT Quote("è, più, però, perché")
> > > > > >
> > > > > > END
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "\xC3\xA8, pi\xC3\xB9, per\xC3\xB2, perch\xC3\xA9"
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Stefano
> > > > >
> > > > > Actually, if you type
> > > > >
> > > > > PRINT "\xC3\xA8, pi\xC3\xB9, per\xC3\xB2, perch\xC3\xA9"
> > > > >
> > > > > you should get the original string.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, but it's not very comfortable :-)
> > > >
> > > > > But apparently there is a bug in the compiler. You have to add a
> > > > > space at the end of the string. I will fix it as soon as possible.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, adding a space didn't solve the little bug. At the
> > > > moment I use a PersonalQuote() function as workaround.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Stefano
> > >
> > > I fixed the bug in the last revision, but why do you need to quote
> > > strings differently from what does the Quote() function?
> >
> > No, no. I don't need a different behaviour. I need a normal behaviour,
> > but Quote() was buggy with special chars.
> > As I told you, I was playing, with SHELL. Exactly I was oggencodin a file
> > called "F. B. - Gravità Permanente.wav".
> >
> > I had to Quote() the file in the SHELL command, because oggenc
> > believes that name is not a single file.
> >
> > sfile = "F. B. - Gravità Permanente.wav"
> > SHELL "oggenc -q 6 " & Quote(sfile) WAIT
> >
> > but Quote() returned that bad char (instead of à) and oggenc didn't find
> > the file. So I found the bug.
> > If I don't Quote() oggenc thinks that name is non a uniq file.
> >
> > As workaround I quoted myself with "\"" & sfile & "\"", and that's solved
> > the question.
> >
> > I hope, I was clear.
> >
> > Thanks for fixing. I think I will test in the afternoon.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Stefano
>
> Quote() is not buggy. It is just not to be used with SHELL. You must use
> the Quote.Shell() method if you want to send argument strings to the SHELL
> command safely.
>
> Regards,

Umh.. I didn't know about Quote.Shell.  :-) 
Thanks,

Stefano