I'm sorry if in any of my previous mails I did sound
like `Rob did it wrong' or something like that.
I didn't mean that at all, and apologize if that
was what I actually wrote.

I think we all now agree that
-> translating in the mount driver is a bad idea.
-> translating in the servers might work, but we're not sure.
-> %q is a good thing, but,
-> ls et al shouldn't use %q (unless other programs change their conventions
  to read file names and digest the quotes properly).

I'm sorry my diff triggered this, but in any case I think we
all are trying to find a way, and more discussions like this will
probably follow.

thanks you all; this has been instructive, at least for me.