On Dec 3, 2008, at 14:50, Bruno Haible wrote:
So my proposal is:- For parsing: - If the first character is a '"', then the escaped syntax is in use. The filename is enclosed in "..."; inside, - occurrences of '"' and '%' are escaped as %22 and %25, respectively, - other ASCII characters may be escaped in %nn syntax as well, where nn is the hexadecimal notation (case insignificant) of the byte value in the ASCII encoding. - Otherwise, the filename ends at the first ':' or end of line.
The reason for suggesting quoting in the first place was allowing absolute URIs as file names in the GNU error format. URIs already use % for escaping, so making % special on the layer carrying the URI would be very inconvenient, since it would break copy-pasteability and human-readability of URIs.
-- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
