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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Cc: The Gnus Mailing List <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: [MAILCAP] filename quoting
Date: 28 Feb 2001 21:06:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vaf66hupo6k.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s8pug2aiw4.fsf@lanber.cam.eu.citrix.com> (Toby Speight's message of "28 Feb 2001 16:10:03 +0000")

On 28 Feb 2001, Toby Speight wrote:
> 0> In article <vafy9uqu85h.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>, Kai
> 0> Großjohann <URL:mailto:Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
> 0> ("Kai") wrote:
> 
> Kai> Failing any other possibility, we could either decide to do
> Kai> whatever the metamail package does, or we could decide to do
> Kai> the Right Thing (tm) -- having Gnus quote the file names.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean here.  If you mean that Gnus should
> transform filenames to something innocuous to the shell and use the
> transformed name everywhere, rather than attempting to cope with all
> the shells' variations, then I'm all for it.  For example, we could
> use URL-style hexadecimal encoding for "dangerous" characters.

This is not what I meant, but it's a great suggestion!  Let's do it!
It's obviously the right way to do it.

Thanks for the suggestion!

kai
-- 
Be indiscrete.  Do it continuously.



      reply	other threads:[~2001-02-28 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-27 18:23 Didier Verna
2001-02-27 18:44 ` Didier Verna
2001-02-27 22:09   ` Kai Großjohann
2001-02-28  8:18     ` Didier Verna
2001-02-28 15:41       ` Kai Großjohann
2001-02-28 16:10         ` Toby Speight
2001-02-28 20:06           ` Kai Großjohann [this message]

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