Re: special characters in filenames in error messages

[Karl Berry]

    > I don't see why \n should be special?

    For the same reason why we should escape :, i.e. to ensure that each
    line can be interpreted as FILE:LINE:MESSAGE.

Obviously we have to escape newline characters.  In the original
proposal, they would be escaped as \012.  I thought you were proposing
to use a special-case \n instead.  So I asked what is gained by doing it
that way.

karl