From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:18:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Try URI quoting for embedded TAB and LF in pathnames
Message-ID: <434FE857.4040201@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510132203220.23590@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> No, pine does it right. Exactly because it sends _arbitraty_ binary data.
> 
> The fact that I turned the terminal into utf-8 mode in order to generate 
> the bytes (that end up being a garbage string in latin1) is not pine's 
> fault. 
> 

I would think a full-screen editor would need to know about multibyte 
encodings.

	-hpa