[thelist] cross-platform file names
Hassan Schroeder
hassan at webtuitive.com
Wed Apr 20 12:37:17 CDT 2005
Jeffery To wrote:
>> <cite>: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
>> Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
> URIs and file names are two different things.
I'd call that arguable but irrelevant if the files are going to be
used in a Web context.
And white space in filenames/URIs fails the transcribability test
discussed in the cited document:
1.5. URI Transcribability
The URI syntax was designed with global transcribability as one of
its main concerns. ...
So I'd still consider it best practice to avoid spaces in filenames.
YMMV!
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