Re: Stupid quoting...

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 14, 2007, 08:51 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0706140151o4e0d3a2fkfde1cd2726f9b14e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <86hcpb6lr6.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

On 6/14/07, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

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> "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 6/14/07, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> >> >> Can you actually name a program that would work with the default
> >> >> output of git here?
> >> >
> >> > echo.
> >>
> >> It doesn't, since it does not interpret the \NNN escape sequences that
> >> git chooses to output.
> >
> > Have you tried that -z switch yet?
>
> What has that to do with "the default output of git"?
>
> Yes, in my application I _will_ be using -z

Just checking.

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>  (in connection with the rather hackish read -d '' name
> command from bash which is not really documented) but that does not
> change the fact that the default output is broken.  There is no reason
> whatsoever to use octal quotes for non-ASCII characters.  Neither
> programs nor humans are better off by that, and none of the derision
> bestowed upon me changes that.

Well, fix that. How do you think _should_ it be?

It's just up until now you are only complaining. No _useful_ idea came from you.