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Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/shellwords.rb | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/shellwords.rb b/lib/shellwords.rb index f1300612bb..6f31a38ee2 100644 --- a/lib/shellwords.rb +++ b/lib/shellwords.rb @@ -69,15 +69,21 @@ module Shellwords # # ... # } # + # It is caller's responsibility to encode the string in the right + # encoding for the shell environment where this string is used. + # Multibyte characters are treated as multibyte characters, not + # bytes. + # def shellescape(str) # An empty argument will be skipped, so return empty quotes. return "''" if str.empty? str = str.dup - # Process as a single byte sequence because not all shell - # implementations are multibyte aware. - str.gsub!(/([^A-Za-z0-9_\-.,:\/@\n])/n, "\\\\\\1") + # Treat multibyte characters as is. It is caller's responsibility + # to encode the string in the right encoding for the shell + # environment. + str.gsub!(/([^A-Za-z0-9_\-.,:\/@\n])/, "\\\\\\1") # A LF cannot be escaped with a backslash because a backslash + LF # combo is regarded as line continuation and simply ignored. |