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On 1 Feb 2005 at 15:43, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> > I would just write that BROKEN strings should be always quoted and
> > IGNORE strings should not.  Writing about special characters can
> > confuse people, since not everyone knows what they are :)
> > 
> > Could you add it to porters handbook ?
> 
> Couldn't we just make BROKEN and IGNORE more consistent?

You're not alone. 

Why not treat BROKEN, IGNORE, FORBIDDEN, DEPRECATED all the same? Is 
there any reason they need to be different?
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