-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Karl Berry on 11/28/2008 11:59 AM: > After some additional discussion with the people who brought up the > issue in the first place (cc'd), who wanted to use url's in GNU-style > error messages, my new proposal is to use octal escapes \ooo (and > nothing else). Specifically: > > 1) if the first character of the source is a ", the source name extends > to the next ". (Including :'s, for example.) > 2) within that "...", \ooo is recognized. For instance, \042=" and \134=\, > so this weird filename (5 chars): > a:"\b > would be output in an error message as: > "a:\042\134b":10:some message > > This should be about as easy to parse as it can be, and it follows rms's > "one character one specification" rule.
This sounds fine to me; I'll try to make time next week to enhance the gnulib quotearg module to output this style. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkxZxAACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDGTgCgkAPPR58/tD8EcU/UKaMMtjGD MuQAmQGEbnR8EcfbhXkmNfWqTa3E0468 =1u4c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
