On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:09:01AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
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> Jeff King wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:49:16AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> >
> >>>...which is a quoting mechanism, and it's not even one commonly used in
> >>>emails (i.e., people have written "parse a URL from this text" scripts
> >>>for RFC-encoded URLs, but _not_ for shell quoting).
> >>I don't think RFC-encoding is quoting mechanism used in emails, either.
> >
> >That's funny, because I have hundreds of mails where that is the case,
> >and none where people used shell-quoting. Most URLs don't _need_ any
> >encoding, so we don't notice either way. But are you honestly telling me
> >that if you needed to communicate a URL with a space via email, you
> >would write:
> >
> > 'http://foo.tld/url with a space'
> >
> >rather than:
> >
> > http://foo.tld/url+with+a+space
> >
> >?
> >
>
> I think 99% of all URL's communicated via email are copy-pasted from a
> webbrowsers location bar. I believe most git urls (or grls, or whatever
> you wanna call them) communicated via email are copy-pasted from ones
> config, or written out manually.
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>