From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:31:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/n] gitweb: Use '&iquot;' instead of '?' in esc_path
Message-ID: <20061104103156.GS20017@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6wk3wpo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 01:02:43AM CET, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > Dear diary, on Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:44:48PM CET, I got a letter
> > where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
> >> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> >> > Which solution do you think it's best?
> >> 
> >> Sorry, if it was not clear in my message, I wanted to say that I
> >> kinda liked those "control pictures" in U+2400 range.
> >
> > In principle, right now it should be pretty easy for a project that for
> > some reason does not use UTF-8 in commits etc. to adjust gitweb to work
> > properly, right? Just change the encoding in HTTP headers and you're
> > done, I think.
> >
> > Is it worth trying to preserve that flexibility?
> 
> Absolutely, and I got your point.  Maybe <blink>\011</blink>
> would be more portable and appropriate.

Actually Jakub is right, &#number; is always a Unicode codepoint,
regardless of document encoding.

Anything but <blink>! ;-)

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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