umm,

were you reading this from a unix machine? i think nemo meant that he's
replacing ' ' with a non-ascii rune in p9 (maybe your font
mistranslated it to '?' in the terminal?)...

here's what the original looked like:

I'm renaming ' ' with â^У in u9fs
There's no problem doing that since there's no â^У
in outside file names.

andrey (who thinks nemo's solution looks quite ok)

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Lucio De Re wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:42:04AM +0200, Fco.J.Ballesteros wrote:
> >
> > I'm renaming ' ' with ? in u9fs
> > There's no problem doing that since there's no ?
> > in outside file names.
>
> There could be:
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 lucio  staff         0 Jul  9 11:22 t?uch
>
> produced by "touch t\?uch" on my NetBSD host.  This is from
> "man 2 intro" on NetBSD 1.5.2:
>
>      File Name
>              Names consisting of up to 255 (MAXNAMELEN) characters may be used
>              to name an ordinary file, special file, or directory.
>
>              These characters may be selected from the set of all ASCII char-
>              acter excluding 0 (NUL) and the ASCII code for `/' (slash).  (The
>              parity bit, bit 7, must be 0.)
>
>              Note that it is generally unwise to use `*', `?', `[' or `]' as
>              part of file names because of the special meaning attached to
>              these characters by the shell.
>
> It needn't be up to date, but it's a safe indicator.
>
> ++L
>