CodingGuidelines: use octal escapes, not hex
Extend the shell-scripting section of CodingGuidelines to suggest octal escape sequences (e.g. "\302\242") over hexadecimal (e.g. "\xc2\xa2") since the latter can be a source of portability problems. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -188,6 +188,10 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):
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hopefully nobody starts using "local" before they are reimplemented
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in C ;-)
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+ - Use octal escape sequences (e.g. "\302\242"), not hexadecimal (e.g.
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+ "\xc2\xa2") in printf format strings, since hexadecimal escape
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+ sequences are not portable.
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For C programs:
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