The baffling thing about this opinion, at least to me, is that it's actually difficult not to handle spaces. Once you've got your path-with-a-space past the wel

The baffling thing about this opinion, at least to me, is that it's actually difficult not to handle spaces. Once you've got your path-with-a-space past the well-known issues involved with handling these in your average shell and/or make - which are stupid issues, but it's probably too late to do anything worthwhile about them by now - what's the problem? What are you going to do with paths that makes handling spaces so hard? This applies equally to Unicode characters. (Which I'd actually expect Make to handle OK. I doubt it uses UTF-32... presumably it's just char stars internally, like most Unix tools, so I'd have thought it would handle UTF-8 just fine. UTF-8 is a bit inefficient, but extremely well-designed in this respect.)