On 9 May 2016 at 20:21, Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I guess that with all those changes, but except for the space that is a >> deep tex engine limitation, only the Devil could find a valid filename >> not working. >> >> Vincent. >> I was going to say, I don't think it's important to support spaces in filenames. (texi2dvi "My Manual.texi" won't work, for example.) The main problem is spaces in higher-level directories, but they shouldn't be a problem any more now we use absolute paths less. I'd say that supporting unusual filenames isn't important. There was already support for tildes (~) in filenames (Debian used them for some reason), but the other characters are easy to avoid by avoiding using them in the filename. Nonetheless it's good that you found a way to support them - it makes texi2dvi slightly more robust for unexpected circumstances. It's good that much of this code isn't used if the filename doesn't contain any unusual characters; this reduces the likelihood of something breaking.
