Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished

[Jan Hudec]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:23:07 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> > Would any other rare character be better for this purpose? Some
> > candidates are ':', ';', '?', '%', '#', '^', '*'. All characters
> > probably have one or another problem, but IMHO the problem with
> > backslash is inherently higher. One more thing to think about is this
> > proprietary OS uses backslash as the directory delimiter.
> 
> If '\' is the escape character and the tla uses it on some interface
> seen by other tools, the tools need to be aware of escaping.
> 
> If '%' is the escape character and the tla uses it on some interface
> seen by other tools, the tools need to be aware of escaping.
> 
> If '#' is the escape character and the tla uses it on some interface
> seen by other tools, the tools need to be aware of escaping.
> 
> ....
> 
> Do u see any difference?
> 
> I favoured shell/C escaping because shell can handle it natively, Tom
> wanted pika escaping. But it really makes no difference even if tla
> would use shell compatible escaping, tools would need to be aware of it
> to do the transformations at the right place. There is really no sense
> in discussing about, because any sane escaping scheme will work and
> tools need to be aware of escaping no matter which scheme is used.
> 
>       Christian

Actualy, there are two escaping shchemes already widely used:

    1) XML Entities: &#<unicode-codepoint-number>;
    2) Old C's scheme extended for unicode:
       \u<unicode-codepoint-number-in hexa>

Why does hackerlab/pika/tla invent another one?
(The argument that R5RS only requires \" is clear to me, but does not
look sufficient to me).

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                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec 
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