Hi! The issue is that search/promptSearch use safeSpawn internally, and safeSpawn does not deal with non-ASCII characters correctly (see https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2020-April/015370.html and https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2020-April/015371.html). You can work around that, but since the call stack is slightly deep you will need quite a lot of code. Here's the snippet I that I tested on my machine, seems to work correctly: safeSpawnUnicode :: MonadIO m => FilePath -> [String] -> m () safeSpawnUnicode prog args = io $ void $ forkProcess $ do uninstallSignalHandlers _ <- createSession executeFile prog True args Nothing ponsSearchEngine = searchEngineF "pons" (\s -> "https://de.pons.com/übersetzung/französisch-deutsch/" ++ (escape s)) -- copied from XMonad.Actions.Search because it does not exort Search constructor data SearchCopy = SearchCopy Name instance XPrompt SearchCopy where showXPrompt (SearchCopy name) = "SearchCopy [" ++ name ++ "]: " nextCompletion _ = getNextCompletion commandToComplete _ c = c promptSearchUnicode :: XPConfig -> SearchEngine -> X () promptSearchUnicode config (SearchEngine name site) = mkXPrompt (SearchCopy name) config (historyCompletionP ("SearchCopy [" `isPrefixOf`)) (\query -> safeSpawnUnicode "firefox" [site query]) showSearchPrompt = promptSearchUnicode myXPConfig ponsSearchEngine Best regards, Platon Pronko On 2020-06-12 15:59, Christian Heinrich wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've started to use XMonad.Actions.Search and I'm trying to define my own SearchEngine as follows:
searchFunc :: String -> String searchFunc s = "https://de.pons.com/übersetzung/französisch-deutsch/" ++ (escape s) pons = searchEngineF "pons" searchFunc
The german umlauts ü and ö are actually part of the URL. According to the documentation, searchEngineF should not handle any escaping (unlike searchEngine), but the URL that is opened for "a" is
https://de.pons.com/%C3%83%C2%BCbersetzung/franz%C3%83%C2%B6sisch-deutsch/a
I can't find what I'm doing wrong even when looking at the source.
Could anyone point out to me how to open that URL without escaping anything? I'm just surprised that the base-URL is escaped as well, and not just the argument. I'm pretty new to Haskell and would be grateful for any hint.
Thanks!
Christian
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