From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:02:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Try URI quoting for embedded TAB and LF in pathnames
Message-ID: <7virw2e9ef.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <87vf02qy79.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu>

Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> writes:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
>
>> I don't know if you realize it, but it's only within the last couple of 
>> years that the old 7-bit "finnish ASCII" went away.
>
> Aach!  Those Finns!  Always on the trailing edge of technology!

Nah, Japanese are much worse.  We are so used to see Yen signs
at the end of multi-line CPP macro definitions (backslashes are
taken over by it) and I do not foresee it going away anytime
soon.  I think windows people believe Yen signs are path
component separators ;-).