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Re: Redirecting cat and paste to file gives garbage


On Aug  8 09:48, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> (no, that's not a typo in the subject line)
> 
> 64-bit install, bash inside mintty, all latest packages with the
> cygwin1.dll snapshot shown below...
> 
> # <<< --- begin STC --->>>
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 ryan-laptop-v02 1.7.23s(0.268/5/3) 20130729 19:11:42
> x86_64 Cygwin
> 
> $ echo "Reading" > /dev/clipboard
> 
> # hit [shift]+[insert] to paste
> # (hopefully 8 characters is not "too long" to paste into a TTY)
> # then hit ^D to finish
> $ cat > tmp.txt
> 
> $ cat tmp.txt
> Rg
> eRaedaidnign
> g

The only idea I have is this.  The clipboard data is stored as
CF_UNICODETEXT and as the Cygwin-private CYGWIN_NATIVE_CLIPBOARD format.
How's shift-insert implemented in mintty?  If it reads the CF_UNICODETEXT
part and sends it to the pty unchanged, that could explain
this behaviour.


Corinna

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