Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: ANN: Spaces in filenames

[Miles Bader]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:35:48PM +0100, Christian Th?ter wrote:
> For now I implement it in the proprosed way, the escaping scheme is
> trivial to change even to HTML encoding as i told before. So first
> implementation later optimization.

The question of whether higher levels need to worry about escapes or
not is pretty fundamental; it's _not_ just a matter of `optimization.'

IOW, existing code assumes that filenames have certain characteristics, one
of them being a lack of whitespace.  The escaping code should not require
changing these assumptions (as allowing '\ ' would).

-miles
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