[thelist] cross-platform file names

[Hassan Schroeder]

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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