On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:59:19 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:

> I'm not sure you can have a space in a Linux username, I've never
> checked. You can try an create a new Windows user, Picard say to keep
> the facepalm subject relevant and create your Picard user on the Pi and
> see if that fixes things. Or maybe you need to merely escape the space
> on any command lines in the normal way (i.e. a \ before the space,
> i.e. fokke\ nauta
>
Like you, its never occurred to me to put a space in a user name: I use
an underscore instead since I know that has no bad effects.

I'm fairly sure that escaping a space would work for any Linux/Unix user
name since that is generally just another command_line argument since it
makes the shell treat both words and the included space as a single
parameter, and "\ " may in some cases be silently replaced by a single
space if its inside a string. However, I suspect its unlikely to work in
windows because I suspect that merely treats "\=" in a user-name entry
box as a backslash followed by a space.

> Me, I'd go fix the username to fokkenauta and kill all the issues in one
> fell swoop.

Agreed.

Another thought: Linux system and application programs tend to default
characters in the range 0x80-0xff to UTF-8 encoding, but what encoding do
Windows 10 system and application programs default characters in this
range to?


--
Martin    | martin at
Gregorie  | gregorie dot org

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05