From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:24:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitweb: Use character or octal escape codes (and add span.cntrl) in esc_path
Message-ID: <7vmz71u787.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200611081150.07469.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Instead of simply hiding control characters in esc_path by replacing
> them with '?', use Character Escape Codes (CEC) i.e. alphabetic
> backslash sequences like those found in C programming language and
> many other languages influenced by it, such as Java and Perl.  If
> control characted doesn't have corresponding character escape code,
> use octal char sequence to escape it.
>
> Additionally use 'span' element with 'cntrl' attribute to mark escaped
> control characters. Add style for span.cntrl in the CSS.

Would have preferred the 'span' thing to be part of [1/2]...

Didn't I ask quot to be freestanding sub, not nested?  That
would make UPR vs CEC experiments easier and more pleasant.