Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished

[chth]

> Would any other rare character be better for this purpose? Some
> candidates are ':', ';', '?', '%', '#', '^', '*'. All characters
> probably have one or another problem, but IMHO the problem with
> backslash is inherently higher. One more thing to think about is this
> proprietary OS uses backslash as the directory delimiter.

If '\' is the escape character and the tla uses it on some interface
seen by other tools, the tools need to be aware of escaping.

If '%' is the escape character and the tla uses it on some interface
seen by other tools, the tools need to be aware of escaping.

If '#' is the escape character and the tla uses it on some interface
seen by other tools, the tools need to be aware of escaping.

....

Do u see any difference?

I favoured shell/C escaping because shell can handle it natively, Tom
wanted pika escaping. But it really makes no difference even if tla
would use shell compatible escaping, tools would need to be aware of it
to do the transformations at the right place. There is really no sense
in discussing about, because any sane escaping scheme will work and
tools need to be aware of escaping no matter which scheme is used.

        Christian