Subject: bug#8531: 24.0.50; shell-quote-argument shouldn't escape special characters

From: Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:34:37 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:31:41 +0200
>> 
>> > The command was "ls Vid\éos".  It displayed the files in that
>> > directory.
>> Yes, but ls "Vid\éos" fail.
>
> Where did the quotes come from?  shell-quote-argument doesn't add
> extra quotes.
>
>> The point is being able to do something like this:
>> (shell-command (format "ls %s" (shell-quote-argument (read-string "Fname: "))))
>> 
>> instead of e.g
>> (shell-command (format "ls '%s'" (read-string "Fname: ")))
>
> The former works for me without any changes.  Are you sure you use the
> default version of shell-quote-argument?
Yes you're right, sorry, i was inserting ~/Vidéos.
So yes the problem is related only to eshell.

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