On 2012-11-05, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It's nothing to do with operating system. File names are names, and
>> spaces in them are seldom worth the hassle unless you manipulate those
>> files solely using a GUI.
>
> That's a very ascii-esqe attitude. In a fully unicode world, I could
> easily see using U+00A0 (NO-BREAK SPACE) in file names, and still have
> space-delimited CLI work just fine.
No, it wouldn't work just fine. You'd never know when looking at
names whether it was a "regular" space or a "no-break space", and
names would be visually ambiguous. Visually ambiguous names are
horrible.
> But, yeah, in the world we live in today, I try to avoid spaces in
> filenames. But, instead of turning "My File Name" into MyFileName, I'll
> usually do it as My-File-Name or My_File_Name.
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