Re: [PATCH 2/n] gitweb: Use '&iquot;' instead of '?' in esc_path
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-11 20:04:25
Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:
Use "&iquot;" Latin 1 entity ("¿" -- inverted question mark =
turned question mark, U+00BF ISOnum) instead '?' as replacements for
control characters and other undisplayable characters.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <redacted>
Do you have something against our Spanish and Latin American
friends? ;-)
I wonder if there is a more suitable replacement character that
is accepted across scripts?
Japanese printing industry has a long tradition of using U+3013
("geta") as a filler character. Originally they placed a type
of otherwise unused character upside down while packing types
into a row, and the reverse side of a type, when inked and
printed, left imprint that looked like footprint somebody who
wore a "geta" (a traditional footware) would leave.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8B%E9%A7%84
shows how a "geta" looks like, and
http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3000.pdf
shows how the filler character looks like.
Note that I am not suggesting to use ௅ as a replacement at
all. I however think inverted question is inappropriate, and we
should pick something else if we are fixing the question mark
which is obviously inappropriate.