Re: gnatsweb/306: Gnatsweb fails to handle pipe symbols in query results

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 16:46 02.12.2001 -0500, Michael Richardson wrote:

> >>>>> "yngve" == yngve svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com> writes:
>     yngve> See if GNATS qfmt accepts non-printable characters, if so use
>     yngve> one. If not, use a more exotic field separator than '|'.
>
>   This is really not a useful way to do fix this.
>   All interfaces to gnatsd will have this problem.
>   Rather, we need a way in Gnats to have it escape the field seperators.

Since basically any character(s) can be specified in the qfmt string, I am 
not certain that that is really necessary. I solved this problem in 
Gnatsweb by replacing |'s in the query format with character 037 (octal), 
which is the ASCII unit separator, and I think this should be a good 
solution for other clients as well..

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer