# [PATCH] gitweb: Quote non-displayable characters in hex, not octal

1 messages from 2008-10-01 to 2008-10-01. Participants: Petr Baudis.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43823

## Petr Baudis, 2008-10-01 20:11

Subject: [PATCH] gitweb: Quote non-displayable characters in hex, not octal
Message-ID: <1222891914-24012-1-git-send-email-pasky@suse.cz>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1222891914-24012-1-git-send-email-pasky%40suse.cz

```
For the last 30 years, the mankind uses the octal representation of
characters only in rare cases and most character codes are hardly
recognizable in octal. In contrast, many programmers still know
hexadecimal well and that is also the representation of choice e.g.
for Unicode codepoints.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <petr.baudis@novartis.com>

---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index da474d0..1b5aa14 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ sub quot_cec {
 	);
 	my $chr = ( (exists $es{$cntrl})
 		    ? $es{$cntrl}
-		    : sprintf('\%03o', ord($cntrl)) );
+		    : sprintf('\%2x', ord($cntrl)) );
 	if ($opts{-nohtml}) {
 		return $chr;
 	} else {
-- 
tg: (c427559..) t/misc/quot-hex (depends on: vanilla/master)

```