[Python-Dev] Problem with 2.3b2 tarfile? (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
Wed, 02 Jul 2003 11:40:14 +0100

Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl> writes:

On dinsdag, 1 juli 2003, at 17:31PM, Michael Hudson wrote:

I know, let's end the filenames with U+2026, HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS. This will surely create no interoperability problems at all. ROTFL. Let me tell you a bit of history. These filenames are actually the strings that will be used in menu entries. Originally, some of them ended in ellipses (okay, not unicode ellipses, but either MacRoman or Latin-1 ellipses, I can't remember). Then people complained. Then we changed them to "...". Now other people complain.

I didn't know this was the history, but I certainly suspected that this was the case (and MacRoman ellipsis is U+2026, I don't think there is an ellipsis in Latin-1).

It seems you can't win em all...

Surprise!

Cheers, M.

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