On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:54:53AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > "Paddy Sreenivasan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967
