ietf-nntp wildmat routines and text

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Thu Jul 27 14:52:07 PDT 2000


Andrew Gierth said:
>> You might also want to forbid escapes where the value is less
>> than 0x80 (so that there's no question of dealing with \u
>> codes for [ or \.
> 
> why? It seems perfectly reasonable to me for \u005b (or \x5b) to be
> treated as a literal [, i.e. a \-escape is always treated as a literal
> character, never a metacharacter.

Um.

We forbade it in C99 for reasons that, now I think about it, don't have to
apply here.

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