Re: [PATCH 2/n] gitweb: Use '&iquot;' instead of '?' in esc_path

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Oct 31, 2006, 00:34 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzmbds4pw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200610301959.05313.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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> Use "&iquot;" Latin 1 entity ("&#191;" -- inverted question mark =
> turned question mark, U+00BF ISOnum) instead '?' as replacements for
> control characters and other undisplayable characters.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>

Do you have something against our Spanish and Latin American friends? ;-)

I wonder if there is a more suitable replacement character that is accepted across scripts?

Japanese printing industry has a long tradition of using U+3013 ("geta") as a filler character. Originally they placed a type of otherwise unused character upside down while packing types into a row, and the reverse side of a type, when inked and printed, left imprint that looked like footprint somebody who wore a "geta" (a traditional footware) would leave.

	http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8B%E9%A7%84

shows how a "geta" looks like, and

	http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3000.pdf

shows how the filler character looks like.

Note that I am not suggesting to use ௅ as a replacement at all. I however think inverted question is inappropriate, and we should pick something else if we are fixing the question mark which is obviously inappropriate.