Bug: Commit message containing control characters

[Denys Duchier]

Martin Pool <martinpool at gmail.com> writes:

> On 05/09/05, Harald Meland <harald.meland at usit.uio.no> wrote:
>> > Am I saying anything different? But the context before was about not being
>> > able to represent \x01 in XML -- which is possible using &#1;.
>
> I guess we have the option of storing literally "\x01", ie the four
> characters BACKSLASH X ZERO ONE, or something along those lines.  It
> is a bit like inventing our own syntax.

Perhaps, we could use a processing instruction, e.g.:

	<?char 1?>

it would indeed be an instruction, to the application displaying the message in
which it occurs, to insert the character \001 at that point.

Cheers,

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