On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:54:53AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> "Paddy Sreenivasan" <paddy AT zmanda DOT com> writes:
> 
> > We need to decide on the release version? 2.6? 2.5.1?
> >
> > Following is the list of features that have been requested:
> >
> > - Support for POSIX file names (allowing spaces in filenames)
> 
> What has this got to do with POSIX file names? I think the name for this
> feature is misleading: the POSIX portable file name character set
> contains _only_ the letters (a-z, A-Z), digits (0-9), the period ".",
> underscore "_" and hyphen "-", that's it (as of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001,
> 2004 edition).


Right, spaces in filenames is a disease. The vector for spreading this
disease has largely been microsloth, and all of the uneducated users they
brought to the party.

Not a reason _not_ to handle them corectly, though, just an editorial
comment.

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