Re: [BUG] You can't have single quote in your username
- From
Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
- Date
- Sep 2, 2019, 19:50 UTC
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- <20190902215048.31a69442@naga>
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- <xmqq1rwyv6tq.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 12:25:37 -0700 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes: > > > But it still risks losing a case where some code path relies on the crud > > cleanup for odd cases (mismatched delimiters, or interleaved delimiters, > > or non-delimiter crud mixed in with delimiters). > > ... > > So I dunno. There is no patch to be discussed, and I am not volunteering > > to write one. So I think whoever chooses to do so has a lot of control > > over what is proposed. :) > > Rather, they can propose what they want, but they have a lot of > tough defending to do on their choice. Lack of potential harm is > much harder to prove than coming up with a single example that > harms. > > I'd rather leave the sleeping dog lie, if we need to encourage > people to live in 21st century and step outside US-ASCII to do so, > then do that instead.
As much as I would love to agree Windows is dragging us down here. I don't think there is any other major (or even just not completely obscure) platform that does not support UTF-8 in the terminal.
Thanks
Michal