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Re: Consider escaping special characters like 'less' does

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Oct 16, 2017, 22:47 UTC
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On Okt 16 2017, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> I can't help but feel this is the tip of a larger iceberg, though. E.g.,
> what about characters outside of the terminal's correct encoding? Or
> broken UTF-8 characters?

Or correctly encoded UTF-8 characters that look confusing? Or blobs with embedded escape sequences?

Andreas.
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  5. Jeff KingOct 15, 2017
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  7. Jeff KingOct 16, 2017
  8. Andreas SchwabOct 16, 2017
  9. Jeff KingOct 16, 2017
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2017
  11. Jeff KingOct 17, 2017
  12. Jason PyeronOct 22, 2017
  13. Jeff KingOct 23, 2017

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