From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed,  8 Apr 1998 18:56:58 -0500
From: G. David Butler gdb@dbSystems.com
Subject: [9fans] allowing space (ASCII 0x20) in file names
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>From: "Rob Pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
>
>This discussion isn't pin-headed enough yet.

Ok.

>Let me point out that you can map the characters into
>UTF-8, and i believe with a little craft you could squeeze
>28 characters into 27 bytes, since you only have 96 or
>so characters valid.

A quick huffman encoding might do it.  Should we also add
some LZW?

db