# Re: \[PATCH 2/n\] gitweb: Use '\&iquot;' instead of '?' in esc\_path

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-08-11 20:04:25 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7690523
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7690523/t.md

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Jakub Narebski [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.

```