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I wonder how much effort it would take, to make the shell robust when it comes to this. Obviously in Python 3 it's not a big deal to process UTF8 strings with c

I wonder how much effort it would take, to make the shell robust when it comes to this. Obviously in Python 3 it's not a big deal to process UTF8 strings with control characters, store them in a database and still have decent XSS protection with no ("manual") input filter. But with Python you loose the flexibility of pipes, combining commands tersely on the fly.

JdeBP 8y ago
Of course, the problem here is in thinking that there is "the" shell, and that one needs to always use a POSIX compatible shell for interactive login. (The C shell users of the world should disabuse one of that particular notion, if nothing else.) * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11672023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11672023 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17989710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17989710