address@hidden: Re: filenames in error messages]

[Karl Berry]

rms insists that we use \-escapes in filenames; %xx for url's is ok with
him.  He apparently accepts all other aspects of proposal B, that is,
"..." for escaped filenames and <...> for urls.

Unless someone wants to argue with him about it (a waste of time IMHO),
or there are other points of discussion, I'll try to draft something for
the coding standards and circulate it here.

karl


Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:31:56 -0500
From: Richard M Stallman <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden (Karl Berry)

Using hex codes for ASCII characters is pessimal for human readability.
If I see \", I know what character it is.  If I see %22, I don't.

So I think that escapes in file names should use C string conventions:
\", \\ and \n.

As for URLs, I won't argue with the usual conventions even though
they were badly chosen.