From: Alex Riesen Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:51:57 GMT Subject: Re: Stupid quoting... Message-ID: <81b0412b0706140151o4e0d3a2fkfde1cd2726f9b14e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86hcpb6lr6.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> On 6/14/07, David Kastrup wrote: > "Alex Riesen" writes: > > > On 6/14/07, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Johannes Schindelin 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. > (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.