[Github-comments] [geany] Under Windows geany couldn't open file which was found by grep utility (Cygwin) with non ascii filename. (#783)

Mikhail notifications at xxxxx
Wed Dec 16 08:01:44 UTC 2015


2015-12-15 21:34 GMT+05:00 Enrico Tröger <notifications at github.com>:

> Got a few more details:
> at first, this is a problem in grep.exe (at least this one distributed
> with Geany, maybe other/better binaries are out there):
>
> if I run the grep command on the cmd.exe, I also get the grep: ./??????:
> Invalid argument result. But in your screenshot you got those squares.
> [image: win32_grep_unicode]
> <https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/617017/11814977/ed323d42-a349-11e5-9ada-d11d0ead4202.png>
>
> For futher testing, I created a directory with a German umlaut (lalelö).
> Result in cmd.exe:
> [image: win32_grep_mixed_cmd]
> <https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/617017/11814994/022d542a-a34a-11e5-9b6e-ebcf2d4b72b1.png>
>
> Result in Geany:
> [image: win32_grep_mixed_geany]
> <https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/617017/11814996/074105e2-a34a-11e5-8bc6-e7ce3568c3a7.png>
>
> cmd.exe displays the folder name lalelö correctly but is not able to
> display correctly the UTF-8 encoded search result.
>
> In Geany, the result is vice-versa: the folder name is displayed
> incorrectly but the UTF-8 parts are displayed properly.
>
> So, related to #784 <https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/784>, we
> probably need to convert the output from external commands back from UTF-16
> to UTF-8. Though I doubt whether this can ever work properly if in the same
> output there is also UTF-8 encoded text. At least I have no idea how this
> could work.
>
> For curiosity, I just tested grep.exe from the MSYS2 environment:
> [image: win32_msys2_grep_mixed_geany]
> <https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/617017/11816518/041f3e2c-a351-11e5-8aa3-c34405843ea6.png>
>
> So yeah, MSYS2 grep.exe seems to work nicely with Geany.
> @NTMan <https://github.com/NTMan> it would be cool if you could test the
> grep.exe in the archive at
> http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/grep-2.22-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz. This is
> exactly the same as I used for the last test (verified with md5sum). I'm
> not sure whether this binary is supposed to work without a MSYS2
> environment and I cannot test this.
>
>
>
​grep from cygwin​




​​grep from msys​


​

both return file path ok for my system.


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