From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Mon,  1 Jul 2002 12:03:02 +0100
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> It strikes me that the arguments people are making against having
> blanks in file names are the same arguments I heard against converting
> Plan 9 to Unicode and UTF

the benefits of converting to utf-8 throughout were obvious.  does the
ability to type ' ' rather than (say) ALT-' ' really confer comparable
advantages?