Thanks Dmitry,
This bug is closed in the latest Debian version of dict: 1.9.15-1
For the record, the patch is:
------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------
--- dictl.in.orig 2004-02-07 07:34:32.000000000 -0500
+++ dictl.in 2005-01-13 14:03:09.000000000 -0500
@@ -93,8 +93,10 @@
DICTL_PAGER=$2
shift;;
*)
- p=`echo "$1" | charset2charset $DICTL_CHARSET $DICTL_SERVER_CHARSET`
- params="$params '$p'"
+ p=`echo "$1" | \
+ charset2charset $DICTL_CHARSET $DICTL_SERVER_CHARSET | \
+ sed -e 's/\\([\$\`\"\\]\\)/\\\\\\1/g'`
+ params="$params \"$p\""
# ...to be comatible with dict
if echo $1 |
------------------------------ >8 ------------------------------
So, before the eval, the string from konwert is passed through sed to
backslash all characters whose literal value is not preserved by
double quotes: $ ` " \
Note that sed sees: s/\([$`"\]\)/\\\1/g
The argument in the string to be passed to eval is then double quoted.
Kirk
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