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
