pb> I think for \n too.
I don't see why \n should be special?
> - use \a \b \f \n \r \t \v for ASCII 7-8-12-10-13-9-11
> - use \" \\ for " and \
The simplicity and regularity of having one and only one quoting
mechanism seems appealing to me.
Filenames containing any of these characters are rare. I don't see that
"human readable" vs. "machine readable" is much an issue here -- that
is, I'd say "easily machine readable" is more important.
> - use \x[0-9a-f][0-9a-f] for ASCII 0-6, 14-31 and 127
Using octal vs. hex is a different question. We could do either one
(but not both). I don't have a strong opinion about it.
rw> then you could think about escaping ':', too:
Agreed, we should recommend escaping : also.
Thanks,
Karl
