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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Quick Question |
| Date | 2015-08-26 13:17 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <878u8y1bxb.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
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"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes: > "glen herrmannsfeldt" wrote: > >> comp.lang.c-the-whole-c-and-nothing-but-c >> >> Is # legal in a newsgroup name? >> >> If I remember right, the PL/I group is named comp.lang.pl1 because >> comp.lang.pl/i isn't allowed. > > Since addresses start out with http:// it is pretty obvious that a > name containing '/' is going to lead to problems. You mean URLs I think. But why should / be a problem? They occur in URLs all the time. And if they were a problem (for some reason), URLs have an "escape" mechanism to permit pretty much any character to be represented. What's more, the naming of groups pre-dates the URL notation, so comp.lang.pl/1 would not have been excluded on that basis. In fact it is not excluded. The prohibited characters are control codes, and those in the C string " !()*,?@[\\]" though I think that was formalised rather late. > in file names and suchlike my choice for "punctuation belongs here" is > '%'. As near as I know it is bulletproof. Well % is not bulletproof in URLs. In fact it introduces the escape sequence I referred to. -- Ben.
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