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From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:07:20 +0900
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Subject: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions
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Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net> writes:
> Can't you use a filter program to generate the output format you want
> from the output format provided?

This is perhaps harder than it should be because tla's output escaping
format seems very complicated -- e.g., unicode encoding etc -- and it
seems annoying to have to duplicate any decoding smarts that already
have to be in tla.

What I'd personally like (i.e., it would be convenient for me) is a
dumbed down "half-encoded" output format: use pika escaping for a small
fixed set of problematic characters (e.g. NUL, SPC, NL, CR, backslash
[to protect the pika escapes]), but for anything else, output decoded
"native" characters.

[I've posted this before, but nobody seemed to care; won't anybody think
of the scripters... :-...? ]

-Miles
-- 
`Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities.
 But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that
 they kill all social life' (from _A Pattern Language_)


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