SteffenDaodeNurpmeso wrote:
Reading your messages it seems safe to request a clarification of
a POSIX wording (Base Definitions, 6.2 Character Encoding; [1]),
from
Likewise, the byte values used to encode <period> and <slash>
shall not occur as part of any other character in any locale.
to
Likewise, the byte values used to encode <period>, <slash>,
<newline> and <carriage-return> shall not occur as part of any
other character in any locale.
[1]
<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap06.html#tag_06>
The restrictions against <period> and <slash> would seem to exist to
prevent file and path names with multi-byte characters from being
corrupted. This isn't an issue for <newline> and <carriage-return>; my
understanding is that those can occur freely within POSIX file and path
names. So excluding them would be a new requirement, not merely a
"clarification."
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA
http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell
