(org-roam-get-keyword "TITLE" file) would return garbled string when the title contain CJK characters.

[colawithsauce]

I got this problem in Doom Emacs: doomemacs/doomemacs#5293, and I finally fixed this by modifying the definition of function org-roam-get-keyword

To reproduce:

1. save this as an org file

:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       2973648b-c6ff-4fe1-92ff-d87754cbc0a3
:END:
#+title: 测试
* 测试 Bug
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       ba1e6d89-e2c8-4c09-b8cd-1814556c254e
:END:

2. M-; (org-roam-get-keyword "TITLE" (org-roam-node-file (org-roam-node-at-point))) and get a garbled string.

To fix that problem, I modified the function. And it works for me.

(defun org-roam-get-keyword (name &optional file bound)
  "Return keyword property NAME from an org FILE.
FILE defaults to current file.
Only scans up to BOUND bytes of the document."
  (unless bound
    (setq bound 1024))
  (if file
      (with-temp-buffer
        ;; from insert-file-contents-literally to insert-file-contents
        (insert-file-contents file nil 0 bound) 
        (org-roam--get-keyword name))
    (org-roam--get-keyword name bound)))

I'm wondering if the "literally" function is essential for performance reasons?

[jethrokuan]

I wouldn't say it's performance-critical, since nothing in the repo calls org-roam-get-keyword. It was a nice-to-have, but now that we know it doesn't work with CJK characters it should definitely be changed.