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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Joris Valette <joris.valette@gmail.com>,
	Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Consider escaping special characters like 'less' does
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:47:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po9m3e3e.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171016221324.stn56gqnliunvcdv@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:13:24 -0400")

On Okt 16 2017, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> I can't help but feel this is the tip of a larger iceberg, though. E.g.,
> what about characters outside of the terminal's correct encoding? Or
> broken UTF-8 characters?

Or correctly encoded UTF-8 characters that look confusing?  Or blobs
with embedded escape sequences?

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-16 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-15 13:33 Consider escaping special characters like 'less' does Joris Valette
2017-10-15 14:15 ` Jason Pyeron
2017-10-15 15:46   ` Andreas Schwab
2017-10-15 16:39     ` Joris Valette
2017-10-15 20:06       ` Jeff King
2017-10-15 21:37         ` Joris Valette
2017-10-16 22:13           ` Jeff King
2017-10-16 22:47             ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2017-10-16 22:58               ` Jeff King
2017-10-17  1:13             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-17  2:45               ` Jeff King
2017-10-22 12:27             ` Jason Pyeron
2017-10-23  0:45               ` Jeff King

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