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.
prev parent 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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