From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <49865ea6f4f9e4bc1fdf6ea573ef8915@caldo.demon.co.uk> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] spaces in file/dir names? (and acme)? From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-yflzmjwvubprlbszsyjhhnwkcx" Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 20:12:30 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a17b3120-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-yflzmjwvubprlbszsyjhhnwkcx Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i tend to use no-break space (00a0) which has dots in two corners in the usual plan 9 fonts, although 2420 symbol for space might be better (i assume it's the traditional symbol) except that it isn't in the few fonts i tried. fraction slash (2044) differs from / although it's perhaps a little subtle. --upas-yflzmjwvubprlbszsyjhhnwkcx Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from punt-1.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk id 1022784863:10:21694:94; Thu, 30 May 2002 18:54:23 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by punt-1.mail.demon.net id aa1128638; 30 May 2002 18:54 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.20.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 2513C19ADE; Thu, 30 May 2002 14:54:18 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from presto.vitanuova.com (unknown [62.254.170.97]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id F0EC919ADA for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 30 May 2002 14:53:46 -0400 (EDT) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] spaces in file/dir names? (and acme)? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020530185346.F0EC919ADA@mail.cse.psu.edu> Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 19:58:29 +0100 > or you could use the picture that acme displays for , > which looks quite reasonable to me. it might be just me, but i'd be happier if the visual ambiguity was avoided as well as the encoding ambiguity. --upas-yflzmjwvubprlbszsyjhhnwkcx--