On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 23:50:38 +0200
Lassi Kortela wrote:
> * URL encoding (using a "%" character before the digits).
I'm not sure if this was a possible consideration or if it would work
for your purposes, but apropos/-k has a database created using
makemandb(8) and it would theoretically be possi
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 04:22:33PM +0200, Lassi Kortela wrote:
> In the present case, it's prudent to establish a clear rule by which
> the filenames in man/cat directories can be taken apart to find the
> page, section, and other suffixes.
I don't think I've seen a use-case -- in this thread or o
> If all dots were escaped, these layers would be kept separate. Then
> manpage filenames would reliably be of the form:
> page "." section-extension ( "." other-extension )*
> Such a filename can be correctly split at dots without knowing what
> manual sections, compression tools, and othe
On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 03:10:44PM +0200, Lassi Kortela wrote:
> Escaping "." in the stem part is good practice when the name of a manpage
> contains a dot.
It would be annoying to have to rename existing manual pages.
> man -w resolv.conf
/usr/share/man/man5/resolv.conf.5
Kind regards,
> The suffix is hopefully restricted to [0-9a-z.] in all cases, and
> hence doesn't need to be escaped.
"hopefully" is not a good basis for designing something like this. Or
at least that's my opinion.
Since you've said this is for man(1)'s purposes, surely you can find
out what suffixes are pos
Date:Mon, 8 Nov 2021 18:14:23 -0500 (EST)
From:Mouse
Message-ID: <202111082314.saa13...@stone.rodents-montreal.org>
| > is posix speak for '/'
|
| But is that "Unicode codepoint 47" or "ASCII codepoint 0x2f" or
| "whatever the character set in use provides th
> 3.243 Pathname
> [...] [...]
> is posix speak for '/'
But is that "Unicode codepoint 47" or "ASCII codepoint 0x2f" or
"whatever the character set in use provides that is a line between
upper right and lower left" or what? Does POSIX mandate an ASCII
superset, for example? C99 demands that
Date:Mon, 8 Nov 2021 13:47:09 -0500 (EST)
From:Mouse
Message-ID: <202111081847.naa28...@stone.rodents-montreal.org>
| What does POSIX say?
>From XBD (basic definitions)
3.243 Pathname
A string that is used to identify a file. In the context
of P
On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 03:30:14PM -0500, Mouse wrote:
> >> What does POSIX say?
> > [...]
> > 2. Each byte in the UTF-8 encoding is interpreted as ASCII
>
> As soon as any of the input codepoints are non-ASCII, UTF-8 generates
> octets which are ouside the ASCII range and thus cannot be interpret
>> What does POSIX say?
> [...]
> 2. Each byte in the UTF-8 encoding is interpreted as ASCII
As soon as any of the input codepoints are non-ASCII, UTF-8 generates
octets which are ouside the ASCII range and thus cannot be interpreted
as ASCII (at least not without further processing).
> 3. If the
> While most ASCII punctuation characters are legal in Unix filenames,
I actually would warn against some thinking that could be (not "is")
present here.
UNIX filenames are not character strings. They are octet strings,
which may be - often are - interpreted as encoding character strings.
Two oc
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