[Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions

[Miles Bader]

Thomas Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> Can't you use a filter program to generate the output format you want
> from the output format provided?

This is perhaps harder than it should be because tla's output escaping
format seems very complicated -- e.g., unicode encoding etc -- and it
seems annoying to have to duplicate any decoding smarts that already
have to be in tla.

What I'd personally like (i.e., it would be convenient for me) is a
dumbed down "half-encoded" output format: use pika escaping for a small
fixed set of problematic characters (e.g. NUL, SPC, NL, CR, backslash
[to protect the pika escapes]), but for anything else, output decoded
"native" characters.

[I've posted this before, but nobody seemed to care; won't anybody think
of the scripters... :-...? ]

-Miles
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