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Subject: Re: [MAILCAP] filename quoting
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On 28 Feb 2001, Toby Speight wrote:
> 0> In article <vafy9uqu85h.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>, Kai
> 0> Gro=DFjohann <URL:mailto:Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
> 0> ("Kai") wrote:
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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
--=20
Be indiscrete.  Do it continuously.