escape quotes and other funny characters in word when popening sdcv

11 years ago · 390135d02d
parent 1a23787e26
commit 390135d02d
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/frontend/ui/reader/readerdictionary.lua
+++ b/frontend/ui/reader/readerdictionary.lua
@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ end
 function ReaderDictionary:stardictLookup(word)
 	DEBUG("lookup word:", word)
 	if word then
-		local std_out = io.popen("./sdcv -nj "..'\"'..word..'\"', "r")
+		-- escape quotes and other funny characters in word
+		local std_out = io.popen("./sdcv -nj "..("%q"):format(word), "r")
 		local results_str = std_out:read("*all")
 		if results_str then
 			--DEBUG("result str:", word, results_str)