Re: A little help from my friends

[Nathan Williams <nwilliams@primeon.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> > else besides space? I don't know).
> 
> Space, tab and newline I think. Other characters might break Gnus too,
> but they should be easier to fix. Gnus uses space/tab as data
> separators in some places without any possibility to escape the
> characters.

        Okay, space, tab, and newline. I'd be curious to see what
other clients do with newlines...

> 
> > The mapping I propose translates ' ' to '-' and '-' to '-=-', which
> > is invertable, visually similar to the original, and does not
> > require shifted characters (an advantage for those of us who are
> > prone to RSI problems). This would map:

        It's been pointed out to me elsewhere that my scheme has a
collision between "-" and " = ". I'll give this more than five
minutes' thought before actually implementing something.

> This looks good. The proper solution is to make Gnus accept SPC in
> group names, of course, but until that happen a scheme similar to this
> is obviously needed.

        Yes. I hope to have something soon.

        - Nathan