On 02:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:14 PM, James Y Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FWIW, I still agree with Martin that that's the most reasonable
solution.
It died because nobody presented a viable solution, and I maintain no
solution is possible. All suggestions involve arbitrary
transformations that fail to round trip correctly at some point or
another. They're simply about shuffling the failure around to
somewhere the poster happens to like.
Please, if you have a *new* idea that doesn't have a failure mode, by
all means post it. But don't resurrect a pointless bikeshed.
Despite my objection to the funny-encoding strategy (which I've
documented thoroughly in my other message to this thread) this isn't
accurate. The PUA solution doesn't work, but using NUL does. This was
proposed last time, as a copy of what Mono does. You can't get a NUL in
os.environ or a filename; it's not valid. So, it works fine as an
escape character. It can round-trip perfectly.
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