Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla-update-ids lacks support for filenames with spaces

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 10:08:24 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Charles Duffy:
> 
> > On Sat, 22 May 2004 21:03:21 -0400, Miles Bader wrote:
> >> Are you saying that one must use --unescaped or else output will be 
> >> escaped?
> >> [In other words tla uses _different_ conventions for input and output?]
> >
> > I think it's pretty damn broken myself -- but yes, such is the case.
> 
> It's broken in other ways, too:
> 
> "tla escape 'ä'" gives "\(U+C3)\(U+A4)" in an UTF-8 locale, and "tla
> --unescaped '\(U+C3)\(U+A4)'" results in "ä".  Apparently, there is no
> Unicode support at all!

No. There is not. It is **PLANNED**. And such character would not be
accepted in filename by arch.

> In this cae, it's just madness to use a quoting scheme which is
> incompatible with the rest of the system.  Of course, this is quite
> consistent with Tom's goals in this area (establish a new file name
> escaping mechanism and much more), but I had hoped that arch would not
> add more warts. 8-(

There is nothing like standard when it comes to escaping unicode.

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