Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem

[Jason Rumney]

Chong Yidong wrote:
> What do you mean by quoted-printable?
>   

Given that we already use % as an escape character, and that = could be 
mistaken for an environment variable assignment, I think URL encoding 
might be more suitable. But the differences between the two are trivial.

> I was thinking that we could instead change all unsafe chars into the
> same character, e.g. an underscore.  I don't think there is much risk
> of name clashing (in the first place, we already use make-temp-file to
> generate a unique filename.)
>   

We already have code in place to do the escaping, so moving to a less 
comprehensive solution does not save us any effort.