On Sunday 21. December 2008 10.40.43 James Youngman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Halim Issa <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would it be an idea to include this in a new experimental release with a > > ./configure option to revert back to the old behaviour? > > I'd certainly consider it. I would seek, though, to avoid changing > the same aspect twice in the default behaviour, so if we're going to > change the escaping rules for -ls, I'd prefer to move things in the > direction of greater consistency.
Has there been any progress on this? find seems to be among the applications perceived to lack UTF-8 support due to its definition of normal localised characters as "special". It would be nice if escape characters were reserved for just that - special characters, and unicode got more equal to ascii as we move forward. Thanks for your patience on this - I appreciate it being a rather non-issue for native english-users > On another mailing list (bug-gnulib, I think) there has recently been > discussion about how to bring consistency in the escaping of filenames > in error messages. While find's erorr messages _are_ consistently > escaped, it might make sense to wait for a conclusion to that > discussion, in case some kind of grand unified character escaping > scheme emerges having applicability to thins other than error messages > too (if I recall correctly, URL %-escapes are a front runner).
