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Re: [Fwd: Re: [Issue 1910] URL autoescape and IRI support]

From: Mark Benedetto King <mbk_at_lowlatency.com>
Date: 2004-06-10 14:46:09 CEST

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:05:22PM +0200, Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Mark Benedetto King wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:16:44PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > > I think this is prety simple. Since we are already in UTF-8 (*), we just
> > > need to escape bytes >=0x80 to support IRI:s.
> > >
> >
> > Not to muddy the water, but someone on #svn had managed to get a file
> > called foo^Hbar into their repository (via import, perhaps?). So,
> > some control characters will need to be escaped as well. Or something.
> >
> -1!!! We shouldn't encoureg use of control characters in filenames. I'd
> rather block them somewhere, but even if we allow them, users should have
> to say %08 to get them.
>

I agree; filenames should be UTF-8. We just need to make sure that
this is enforced.

--ben

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