Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces
Since nobody seems to have noticed, I'd like to re-propose my idea for
consideration:
Files: a b
c d
e
f
(ie, using continuation lines to specify lists of files, rather than
commas or anything else. No escaping necessary.)
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Gunnar Wolf<gwolf@gwolf.org> wrote:
> Giacomo A. Catenazzi dijo [Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:09:02PM +0200]:
>> >>PS: on POSIX you can expect all characters but NULL in filename
>> >>('/' is a very special beast: you cannot create a file containing the
>> >>'/' in current locale, but if it was created in other locales there
>> >>are not (theoretically) problems.
>> >Wrong: The characters composing the name may be selected from the set of all
>> >character values excluding the slash character and the null byte.
>>
>> The <slash> is locale dependent. Thus a file created in an other locales
>> could contain the character that in current locale is interpreted as
>> <slash>.
>> BTW with pathname resolution rules, the file could not be acceded, but
>> AFAIK the non pathname resolution system call permit <slash>
>> (like readdir).
>
> Uff... I cannot help but to share this link:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/09/17/469941.aspx
>
> So, just for ugliness and irony sake, we could employ ₩ or ¥ as a
> separator? Maybe Đ, as it bears more relation to Debian?
>
> No?
>
> Ok, nevermind.
>
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