Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2016-08-11

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 ("&#191;" -- 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 &#3013; 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.
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