[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils 1.4.16-5

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils 1.4.16-5

[Mark Geisert]

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:

* cygutils-1.4.16-5
* cygutils-extra-1.4.16-5
* cygutils-x11-1.4.16-5

This release fixes a couple of issues reported in -4test.  I decided
rather than respinning -4 as a non-test release, to just bump to -5.

Unicode capture from the Windows clipboard with getclip and Unicode
display to the Windows clipboard with putclip should now be working
properly.  Thank you to those who reported issues with the previous
builds, both privately and on the main Cygwin mailing list.

Excerpt from ChangeLog follows...
2021-08-24  Mark Geisert  <mark@maxrnd.com>  (release 1.4.16-5)

        * src/clip/putclip.c: Fix broken Unicode support. Don't GlobalFree a
        handle that's been transferred to the system by SetClipboardData().
        Thanks to Christian Franke for that last bit.

2021-08-15  Mark Geisert  <mark@maxrnd.com>  (release 1.4.16-4test)

        * Makefile.am: Add -lkernel32 to src_clip_getclip_LDADD.  This somehow
        didn't make it into the released -3 package.  Thank you Takashi Yano.
        * Fix maintainer build environment issues that caused cygstart crash
        on non-AVX user systems: Thank you Takashi Yano, Brian Inglis, Achim
        Gratz and user Jay Abel for reporting the issue.
        * src/cygdrop/cygdrop.cc: Fix crash with recent gcc and fix printf
        format strings. Thank you Christian Franke.

2021-07-05  Mark Geisert  <mark@maxrnd.com>  (release 1.4.16-3)

        * src/clip/getclip.c: Add Unicode support.

I plan to update the public source repository for cygutils over the next
couple weeks.  Then after that it's revisiting the whole source tree to
make corrections to allow compilation with gcc 11.  That will be 1.4.17.
Cheers & Regards,

..mark

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils 1.4.16-5

[Takashi Yano]

Hi Mark,

On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:21:43 -0700
Mark Geisert wrote:
> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
> 
> * cygutils-1.4.16-5
> * cygutils-extra-1.4.16-5
> * cygutils-x11-1.4.16-5
> 
> This release fixes a couple of issues reported in -4test.  I decided
> rather than respinning -4 as a non-test release, to just bump to -5.
> 
> Unicode capture from the Windows clipboard with getclip and Unicode
> display to the Windows clipboard with putclip should now be working
> properly.  Thank you to those who reported issues with the previous
> builds, both privately and on the main Cygwin mailing list.
> 
> Excerpt from ChangeLog follows...
> 2021-08-24  Mark Geisert  <mark@maxrnd.com>  (release 1.4.16-5)
> 
>         * src/clip/putclip.c: Fix broken Unicode support. Don't GlobalFree a
>         handle that's been transferred to the system by SetClipboardData().
>         Thanks to Christian Franke for that last bit.
> 
> 2021-08-15  Mark Geisert  <mark@maxrnd.com>  (release 1.4.16-4test)
> 
>         * Makefile.am: Add -lkernel32 to src_clip_getclip_LDADD.  This somehow
>         didn't make it into the released -3 package.  Thank you Takashi Yano.
>         * Fix maintainer build environment issues that caused cygstart crash
>         on non-AVX user systems: Thank you Takashi Yano, Brian Inglis, Achim
>         Gratz and user Jay Abel for reporting the issue.
>         * src/cygdrop/cygdrop.cc: Fix crash with recent gcc and fix printf
>         format strings. Thank you Christian Franke.
> 
> 2021-07-05  Mark Geisert  <mark@maxrnd.com>  (release 1.4.16-3)
> 
>         * src/clip/getclip.c: Add Unicode support.
> 
> I plan to update the public source repository for cygutils over the next
> couple weeks.  Then after that it's revisiting the whole source tree to
> make corrections to allow compilation with gcc 11.  That will be 1.4.17.

Thanks for fixing.

I tested 1.4.16-5 and found another problem in putclip.

If non-ASCII chars are passed to putclip, clip board
has garbage at the end.

Run 'echo αβγ | putclip', then paste clip board to
notepad. 'αβγ' is pasted with a few bytes of garbage.

It seems that the longer non-ASCII string generages longer
garbage.

Running 'echo αβγαβγαβγαβγαβγαβγ | putclip'
and pasting clip board here, results something like:

αβγαβγαβγαβγαβγαβγ
z⊨z⊨z⊨z⊨z⊨zἰz⊨z᪨zἰ

Sometimes, error message:
"Couldn't write CF_TEXT format to the clipboard."
is shown.

My locale is "ja_JP.UTF-8".

Could you please have a look?

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils 1.4.16-5

[Mark Geisert]

Hi Takashi,

Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
> I tested 1.4.16-5 and found another problem in putclip.
> 
> If non-ASCII chars are passed to putclip, clip board
> has garbage at the end.
> 
> Run 'echo αβγ | putclip', then paste clip board to
> notepad. 'αβγ' is pasted with a few bytes of garbage.
> 
> It seems that the longer non-ASCII string generages longer
> garbage.
> 
> Running 'echo αβγαβγαβγαβγαβγαβγ | putclip'
> and pasting clip board here, results something like:
> 
> αβγαβγαβγαβγαβγαβγ
> z⊨z⊨z⊨z⊨z⊨zἰz⊨z᪨zἰ
> 
> Sometimes, error message:
> "Couldn't write CF_TEXT format to the clipboard."
> is shown.
> 
> My locale is "ja_JP.UTF-8".
> 
> Could you please have a look?

Thanks for the report and especially the testcase.  I can reproduce this. 
Something like 'cat foo | putclip' where the file foo contains Unicode does work. 
It's the use of 'echo' with Unicode chars that fails.  I'll add that testcase to 
my procedures and respin -5 with the fix when ready.

..mark