From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] blanks in file names
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Tue,  2 Jul 2002 19:14:46 +0100
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> 	- change the system to translate blanks in file names to the
> 	  same character.

it might be worth identifying the exact points that would need changing
should such a scheme be chosen.

/sys/src/cmd/dossrv
/sys/src/cmd/9660srv
/sys/src/cmd/tapefs
/sys/src/cmd/unix/u9fs
/sys/src/cmd/ftpfs
	convert "space char" to/from external actual space on create,
	walk, wstat, stat and directory reads.

/sys/src/9/port/latin1.c
	make it possible to have a single character ALT sequence
	(if ALT-space is what's desired).

>	- change the quote library so it does not quote that character.

it doesn't matter if it does...
however various places would need to change back so they didn't quote
chars (e.g.  ls, pwd?)

a suitable character would need to be chosen (e.g.  00A0), and it
would be nice if most fonts displayed it in a reasonably consistent
manner.

perhaps a new function could be added to libc that does the
conventional conversion from ' ' to the new space char so that
programs with GUI entry boxes that know that a string is being typed
in a filename context can trivially do the conversion.

what have i missed?