Knits escape too many characters

[John Arbash Meinel]

Wayne Davison wrote:
> 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..
> 
> 

Well, the ids really aren't for reading anyway. And the above has
problems if you have the ID: x_%john, since that would be escaped to
x_%%john which ends up conflicting with x_John => x_%%John on
filesystems that have case issues.

John
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