From 22c65d7d609a441efb5e303a922890ae4b5a5813 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: arades79 <scravers@protonmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2023 00:38:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] clarify unescaped chars

Signed-off-by: arades79 <scravers@protonmail.com>
---
 src/calc.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calc.c b/src/calc.c
index ca4d74f..dba9302 100644
--- a/src/calc.c
+++ b/src/calc.c
@@ -407,7 +407,9 @@ static void execsh(char* cmd, char* entry)
             NULL);
     g_free(parts);
 
-    gchar *escaped_cmd = g_strescape(user_cmd, "·−×√²³⊻↊↋¬°");
+    // don't escape these utf-8 runes which appear in qalc output, the escape sequences are not recognized by shell (#108)
+    static const char *unescaped_chars = "·−×√²³⊻↊↋¬°";
+    gchar *escaped_cmd = g_strescape(user_cmd, unescaped_chars);
     gchar *complete_cmd = g_strdup_printf("/bin/sh -c \"%s\"", escaped_cmd);
     g_free(user_cmd);
     g_free(escaped_cmd);