Re: [PATCH] Try URI quoting for embedded TAB and LF in pathnames

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Oct 12, 2005, 19:07 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510121452030.23242@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510120749230.14597@g5.osdl.org>

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So if you want to support any other locale than UTF-8, you need to escape 
> them. Assuming you want to escape control characters at all, of course (I 
> still think it's perfectly fine to just let the raw mess through and 
> depend on escaping at higher levels)

I think it's actually sufficient to escape 0x00-0x1f and 0x7f; those ranges are both easy and, as far as I can tell, include all of the control characters that do annoying things. I think escape, backspace, delete, and bell are the only ones we'd rather the terminal not get; beyond that, patches with screwy filenames look screwy, but don't screw up anything outside of the filename.

	-Daniel
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