On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:49:16AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > ...which is a quoting mechanism, and it's not even one commonly used in > > emails (i.e., people have written "parse a URL from this text" scripts > > for RFC-encoded URLs, but _not_ for shell quoting). > > I don't think RFC-encoding is quoting mechanism used in emails, either. That's funny, because I have hundreds of mails where that is the case, and none where people used shell-quoting. Most URLs don't _need_ any encoding, so we don't notice either way. But are you honestly telling me that if you needed to communicate a URL with a space via email, you would write: 'http://foo.tld/url with a space' rather than: http://foo.tld/url+with+a+space ? I think the latter is much more common, if only because of the fact that copy and paste from most browsers' location bars gives the encoded version. -Peff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
