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| author |   Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> | 2017-11-21 18:16:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> | 2017-11-25 21:49:16 +0100 |
| commit | 5f62c85c4fd71be0a2cac388ad2da20c56d42b3d (patch) | |
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| parent | glep-0074: Apply suggestions from Ulrich Müller (diff) | |
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glep-0074: Mention that newline needs to be restricted too in rationale
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diff --git a/glep-0074.rst b/glep-0074.rst index 278882d..d0750f5 100644 --- a/glep-0074.rst +++ b/glep-0074.rst @@ -570,11 +570,12 @@ technically problematic groups: written using C. Furthermore, it is not allowed in any known filesystem. -2. Whitespace characters are used to separate Manifest fields. While - technically it would be enough to restrict space (``U+0020``) - character that is normally used as the separator, all whitespace - characters are forbidden to avoid confusion and implementation - errors. +2. Whitespace characters are used to separate Manifest fields + and entries. While technically it would be enough to restrict space + (``U+0020``) character that is normally used as the separator + and newline (``U+000A``) character that is used to separate lines, + all whitespace characters are forbidden to avoid confusion + and implementation errors. While the specification could be extended to allow such filenames by using some form of escaping, there is currently no apparent need |