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Re: special characters in filenames in error messages
From: |
Paolo Bonzini |
Subject: |
Re: special characters in filenames in error messages |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:14:41 +0100 |
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Karl Berry wrote:
> > 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.
Ah, I was referring to \n because my proposal included using standard C
escape sequences. But if that's not done, of course \012 or \x0A is fine.
Paolo
- Re: special characters in filenames in error messages, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/12/01
- Re: special characters in filenames in error messages, Bruno Haible, 2008/12/03
- Re: special characters in filenames in error messages, Karl Berry, 2008/12/03
- Re: special characters in filenames in error messages, Henri Sivonen, 2008/12/04
- Re: special characters in filenames in error messages, Bruno Haible, 2008/12/06
- Re: special characters in filenames in error messages, Karl Berry, 2008/12/08
- Re: special characters in filenames in error messages, Bruno Haible, 2008/12/08
- Re: special characters in filenames in error messages, Karl Berry, 2008/12/11
- Re: special characters in filenames in error messages, Bruno Haible, 2008/12/14
Re: special characters in filenames in error messages, Bruno Haible, 2008/12/03