Re: special characters in filenames in error messages

[Eric Blake]

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According to Karl Berry on 11/28/2008 11:59 AM:
> After some additional discussion with the people who brought up the
> issue in the first place (cc'd), who wanted to use url's in GNU-style
> error messages, my new proposal is to use octal escapes \ooo (and
> nothing else).  Specifically:
> 
> 1) if the first character of the source is a ", the source name extends
>    to the next ".  (Including :'s, for example.)
> 2) within that "...", \ooo is recognized.  For instance, \042=" and \134=\,
>    so this weird filename (5 chars):
> a:"\b
>    would be output in an error message as:
> "a:\042\134b":10:some message
> 
> This should be about as easy to parse as it can be, and it follows rms's
> "one character one specification" rule.

This sounds fine to me; I'll try to make time next week to enhance the
gnulib quotearg module to output this style.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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