On Wednesday 05 March 2008 10:21:29 Tomas Mraz wrote: > > Lets not invent YAES (Yet Another Encoding System). The world already > > has enough :-) There is value in sticking with known encodings, many > > programmers are instantly familiar with them and there is a raft of > > working code to support them. Off the top of my head I can think of: > > > > 1) backslash escapes with embedded octals > > 2) quoted printable > > 3) base64 > > 4) xml entities > > 5) url encoding - which is what I proposed and is most efficient and > readable (well it is equivalent to quoted printable except it uses % > instead of = which we cannot use as it has already a meaning as name > value separator)
And if base64 is being suggested, why not: 6) ASCII encoded hex. Its compact, saves diskspace, easily encodes any utf-8 or ASCII string including punctuation and whitespace. -Steve -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
