Knits escape too many characters

[Wayne Davison]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:21:02PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> We must take a lowest-common-denominator approach and do this on all
> platforms, because we support mirroring as a way of making branches.

It's just too bad that such an unreadable escaping idiom is being used
for upper-case letters.  If the %-escaping idiom were extended to
understand "%%X", where X is an upper-case letter, you could escape
upper-case in a way that was more readable.  E.g., the originally cited
ID escaped with this extended encoding:

x_%%John_%%F_%%Meinel_%%Jr_%3cjohn at johnmeinel.com%3e_%%Fri_%%Jun_11_00%3a50%3a40_2004_2213.0

..wayne..