First, as I've said elsewhere, this thread is just about the most impressive bikeshedding session I've ever seen. So I'll try and stick to a single post, and I'm only posting because I don't think I've seen mention of the following problem:
[Gunnar Wolf] > Yup - But the newline is also a valid (altough, yes, very uncommon) > part of a filename. So are non-UTF-8 byte sequences, and I suspect those are a great deal more common in filenames than newlines. If you want your copyright file to be UTF-8, you have to escape those byte sequences somehow. I propose something very simple: ? to escape any single byte that seems problematic in any way. Spaces, tabs, newlines, the ISO-8859-1 registered trademark symbol, etc., etc. I mean, we don't need this transform to be reversible, do we? -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
