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 16:34:35 -0800 Message-ID: <7vzmbds4pw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <200610301953.01875.jnareb@gmail.com> <200610301959.05313.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:34:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org In-Reply-To: <200610301959.05313.jnareb@gmail.com> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:59:05 +0100") 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 1GehaT-00083S-26 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:34:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161487AbWJaAei (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:34:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161490AbWJaAei (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:34:38 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao12.cox.net ([68.230.241.27]:3525 "EHLO fed1rmmtao12.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161487AbWJaAeh (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:34:37 -0500 Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao12.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20061031003436.WTNN18180.fed1rmmtao12.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:34:36 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id goaG1V00r1kojtg0000000 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:34:17 -0500 To: Jakub Narebski Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org 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? Japanese printing industry has a long tradition of using U+3013 ("geta") as a filler character. Originally they placed a type of otherwise unused character upside down while packing types into a row, and the reverse side of a type, when inked and printed, left imprint that looked like footprint somebody who wore a "geta" (a traditional footware) would leave. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8B%E9%A7%84 shows how a "geta" looks like, and http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3000.pdf shows how the filler character looks like. Note that I am not suggesting to use ௅ as a replacement at all. I however think inverted question is inappropriate, and we should pick something else if we are fixing the question mark which is obviously inappropriate.