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eshell backslash handling

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:24:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#8531: 24.0.50; shell-quote-argument shouldn't escape special characters
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:10:49 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:23:13 +0200
>> 
>> (shell-quote-argument "Vidéos")
>> ==> "Vid\\éos"
>> 
>> eshell:
>> ls (shell-quote-argument "Vidéos")
>> Vid\éos: No such file or directory
>
> Looks like a problem in Eshell:
No it is the same in M-x shell

> I have no problem with using the
> result of shell-quote-argument in "M-!".
Which result?
Which command?
I am speaking of escaping accentued characters "é, à etc..."
Why `shell-quote-argument' escape such characters?

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