From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/n] gitweb: Use '&iquot;' instead of '?' in esc_path Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:27:39 -0800 Message-ID: <7vvem1s29g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <200610301953.01875.jnareb@gmail.com> <200610301959.05313.jnareb@gmail.com> <7vzmbds4pw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:28:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org In-Reply-To: <7vzmbds4pw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:34:35 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeiQE-0007ww-HV for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:28:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161566AbWJaB1l (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:27:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161567AbWJaB1l (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:27:41 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao07.cox.net ([68.230.241.32]:16006 "EHLO fed1rmmtao07.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161566AbWJaB1k (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:27:40 -0500 Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20061031012740.QVSB28934.fed1rmmtao07.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:27:40 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id gpTL1V00K1kojtg0000000 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:27:21 -0500 To: Jakub Narebski Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano writes: > Jakub Narebski writes: > >> Use "&iquot;" Latin 1 entity ("¿" -- inverted question mark = >> turned question mark, U+00BF ISOnum) instead '?' as replacements for >> control characters and other undisplayable characters. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski > > Do you have something against our Spanish and Latin American > friends? ;-) > > I wonder if there is a more suitable replacement character that > is accepted across scripts? I have a suspicion that instead of finding an exotic character, just showing the byte value in \octal, perhaps in different color, might be more portable and easier. For one thing, it helps to show the exact byte value than just one substitution character if you are troubleshooting gitweb.