From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] spaces in file/dir names? (and acme)?
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 19:16:59 +0100
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i quite like the way that spaces in r3 dosfs map to colons (and vice
versa, presumably).  of course you wouldn't want to do that in general
'cos colon is a useful char, but what about that glyph that i've seen
in Word (i think) that looks like a very small dot at the bottom of
the line and represents a space; that's fairly unambiguous, and if
most fonts displayed 0xa0 as that glyph, and if /lib/keyboard mapped
ALT-space to 0xa0, and imported filesystems mapped 0xa0 1-1 with 0x20,
we'd have quite a workable situation and no confused
shellscripts/cut&paste/double-click.

  cheers,
    rog.