From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 18:37:46 -0500 From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@groucho.cse.psu.edu Subject: spaces in filenames Topicbox-Message-UUID: fea15788-eac7-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19940128233746.V93xXCDTSONtYG-VbMl23H1KDg7_mldq5x8DhGlP7qE@z> One of the features of plan 9 is that, thanks to unicode, people with non-ascii names can have their real names as their login names. But that isn't the whole story. Some people have spaces in their names. Ursula K. Le Guin should be able to log in as ``Le Guin'', but since ascii space is disallowed in filenames, she couldn't have the right home directory. That's kind of a shame.