[Gnu-arch-users] Re: ANN: Spaces in filenames

[John Goerzen]

I ran into a problem recently regarding brackets "[" and "]" in
filenames.   Could this solution also fix that problem?  Actually, I
don't see why they are banned in the C version at all; there should be
no escaping necessary.

While we're on the subject, perhaps a more general mechanism than
backslash escaping should be used -- maybe percent-hex escaping like
URLs?  That would also allow tla to support filenames with embedded
newlines and 8-bit names easier.

-- John

Christian Thäter <address@hidden> writes:

> I just started to work on the "permit spaces in filenames" issue.
> If anyone else works on the same thing or want to help, please tell me.
>
> It will take looong time because i'm going to hollyday for 1 full month from 
> 8.nov on.
> Finishing estimate based on my lazyness and low priority is mid Dez to end of 
> Jan. :)
>
> Short design notice:
>
> #1) make a generalized str_ engine for libhackerlab which converts between 
> escaped and unescaped strings (currently C String literal escapes and some 
> extensions ('\ ' is not C99 Standard). But will handle other languages as 
> well (HTML '&auml;', unicode ) [hopefully tom likes to integrate that into 
> libhackerlab]
>
> #2a) grep out all I/O in libarch which writes strings which need to be 
> escaped and apply the escape handling there.
> #2b) make all tokenizers backslash-aware.
>
> Cheers Christian
>
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