On 23/07/2019 17:59, mm0fmf wrote:
> There's no reason why usernames and filenames cannot be UTF-8 or
> whatever you want but there is the simple fact lurking that an awful lot
> of code has been written when everything was ASCII only (or 7bit ASCII
> even) or written by programmers who only think ASCII. The result is code
> that considers the space to be a delimiter in a user.

Just about every command Linux will take a space or non-ASCII in
usernames or filenames, but you'll have to work out how to get them in
to the command in an acceptable way. You'll need to know the right
combination of quoting characters (backslash space, or enclosing in
single or double quotes), that you preferred shell and the command
itself takes. You can run in to problems where one command passes an
argument to another and removes your quoting, or requires it in a
different form, in which case you often need to use the underlying
commands directly instead.

Or for an easy life, avoid spaces, use "firstname.lastname"!

---druck

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