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> Putting spaces in pathnames is idiotic to begin with. The thing that’s idiotic is not being able to handle valid paths. Yes, all of them. Yes, including ones
by minitech 8y ago
> Putting spaces in pathnames is idiotic to begin with.
The thing that’s idiotic is not being able to handle valid paths. Yes, all of them. Yes, including ones containing GREEK CAPITAL REVERSED DOTTED LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL (but also apostrophes, backslashes, quotes, dollar signs). It boggles the mind that a tool that does everything through a shell can’t be made to pass arbitrary information to that shell in a reliable manner.
- spc476 8y agoGNUMake handles UTF-8 just fine. I was able to replace spaces (character 0x20) with non-breaking spaces (character 0xA0) and it just worked (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16527084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16527084).
- minitech 8y agoSorry, didn’t mean to imply it couldn’t; just pointing out that it’s important to handle despite the way the parent suggests it’s a ridiculous expectation.