Unescape Unicode characters

[JustArion]

I've noticed that certain shows contain unescaped Unicode characters. Most notably from the screenshot below "Frieren: Beyond Journey\u2019s End" and ""The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History\u2019s Strong..."

Through a broad fix, it looks to be doing fine, though, I haven't tested it with external menus yet such as rofi, but for the most part, fzf works fine. It would most likely need additional testing to see if anything breaks. Here's how the fix looks like

The lines I've changed are basically changing printf "%s" ... to printf "%b" ... eg. L438

- choice=$(printf "%s" "$tmp_anime_list" | launcher "Choose anime: " "1")
+ choice=$(printf "%b" "$tmp_anime_list" | launcher "Choose anime: " "1")

Anime L438 L462 L493 L513

Manga L613 L635 L665 L683

[justchokingaround]

sadly %b isnt posix compliant, since it's a bash extension. iirc if u test that with dash it won't work

[JustArion]

sadly %b isnt posix compliant, since it's a bash extension. iirc if u test that with dash it won't work

Could a sed replacement for any \u[0-9]{4} work as an alternative? (I've barely ever used sed myself)

[justchokingaround]

i dont think it'd be feasible since it'd look smtg like this: https://github.com/justchokingaround/ln-cli/blob/main/html-decode.sed

[JustArion]

i dont think it'd be feasible since it'd look smtg like this: https://github.com/justchokingaround/ln-cli/blob/main/html-decode.sed

That's unfortunate

sadly %b isnt posix compliant, since it's a bash extension. iirc if u test that with dash it won't work

Yeah, I just tried it on a desktop environment and it didn't work.

Would you like the issue open for the future maybe or closed as a wont fix tag?

[justchokingaround]

i prefer leaving it open, ill fix it eventually

[justchokingaround]

how does:

printf '%s' "$1" | sed -E 's|\\u.{4}||g'

sound @JustArion ?

it's not ideal, but ig it's enough of a workaround

[JustArion]

how does:

printf '%s' "$1" | sed -E 's|\\u.{4}||g'

sound @JustArion ?

it's not ideal, but ig it's enough of a workaround

It looks like a good workaround for the time being, rather no unescaped unicode characters than some for the time being.

[justchokingaround]

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